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Data breach reveals extensive government spying on journalists and political activists A data breach of the Israeli spy company NSO Group has revealed that the company’s Pegasus software is being used by governments around the world to spy on political dissidents and journalists. The breach, obtained by French media non-profit Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International, included a list of 50,000 phone numbers targeted for infection with the Pegasus spyware. Many identified targets of NSO’s...

How misinformation connects the top news stories By Brian Stelter, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. And the revelations are only just beginning. The consortium began to publish its findings on Sunday. The stories indicate that numerous members of the media were “possible candidates for surveillance,” as The Guardian put it. Forensic tests affirmed the presence of spyware on some phones. More will be coming out in the days ahead...

Pegasus Project: Why 17 news outlets are working together to cover spyware on a mass scale Pegasus Project: Why 17 news outlets are working together to cover spyware on a mass scale Posted: Jul 19, 2021 2:41 AM Updated: Jul 19, 2021 2:41 AM Posted By: By Brian Stelter, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the "Reliable Sources" newsletter. And the revelations are only just beginning. The consortium began to publish its findings on Sunday. The stories indicate that numerou...

Government officials, Opposition politicians, activists part of snooping list in India   Mon, Jul 19 2021 10:36:33 AM New Delhi, Jul 19 (IANS): In India, the numbers of phones belonging to hundreds of journalists, activists, opposition politicians, government officials and business executives were on the snooping list, as numbered in several other countries in the region, including Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Pakistan, the Washington Post reported. When Siddharth Varadarajan, co-founder of the...

Israeli software used by governments worldwide to spy on journalists and activists Governments using Israeli malware tool Pegasus to spy on their critics, warns global journalists consortium 19 July 2021 • 7:18am An Israeli woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli NSO group Credit: Jack Guez/An Israeli woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli NSO group Dozens of activists, lawyers and reporters worldwide, including the editor of the Financia...

Govt officials, Opposition politicians, activists part of snooping list in India Mid-Day 16 hours ago © Provided by Mid-Day In India, the numbers of phones belonging to hundreds of journalists, activists, opposition politicians, government officials and business executives were on the snooping list, as were numbers in several other countries in the region, including Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Pakistan, the Washington Post reported. When Siddharth Varadarajan, co-founder of the Wire, an inde...

Eloquently nasty spyware from Israeli firm was reportedly used against dozens of journalists, politicians, activists Peter Weber © Provided by The Week Military-grade spyware developed and licensed by the private Israeli firm NSO Group was found on the smartphones of 23 journalists, business executives, human rights activists, and at least one woman close to murdered Post and 16 other media organizations around the world reported Sunday. Someone had also attempted to put the ...

MedCity News Report: Addiction treatment apps pose privacy risks Most apps offering opioid use disorder treatment have access to sensitive identifying information of their users, according to an analysis of 10 of them. Shares0 This article has been updated with a statement from Bicycle Health.  Several past reports have raised privacy concerns in mobile health apps, especially in data being shared with third-party advertisers and analytics providers. Even in apps offering treatment for opioi...

Forward. if there is a high likelihood that this came out of a laboratory, it will affect how we provide better security with bsl labs and labs doing this kind of research and the lab in wuhan was being done in a lower security lab and we are, and if there is a probability that this came out of a lab we have to know whats going on inside these laboratories. if we assess that this was a zoonottic source and we have the spill over effects from nature and getting the probability that this came out ...

Moving on to a story we picked up on yesterday. of course youve seen it in the news cycle. growing i would suggest over the last couple weeks. become socially acceptable. carley: a big shift earlier this week. will: talking about the origins of the covid-19 virus. did it come from a lab. more than a year to this point, youve been told, no, no, thats silly. in fact that is racist. better yet, that is a conspiracy theory. you heard stuff like this for the better part of a year. >> this question ab...