European cousins Intellexa and Cytrox essentially banned by Commerce Dept. — Predator/ALIEN not welcome in U.S.

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NSO Group, notorious makers of the notorious Pegasus spyware, has been in acquisition talks with huge defense contractor L3Harris.

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This week, the Department of Commerce (DoC) amended its export administrative regulations (EAR) with the addition of four companies onto the entity list, effective November 4, 2021. The four companies—one from Singapore, two from Israel and one from Russia—were all engaged in activities which the U.S. government determined were “contrary to the foreign policy and..

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The Department of Commerce’s U.S. Bureau of Industry and Commerce (BIC) has added 17 organizations from 11 countries to its “entity list,” citing national security concerns. Presence on the list means the organization or enterprise is presumed to be acting counter to the national security interests of the United States. In a practical sense, this..

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