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The US, British, Canadian, Swiss, Swedish, German and Dutch Olympic committees told their teams they should use disposable phones in Beijing, which they can bin after the event.
Last modified on Wed 16 Dec 2020 16.28 EST The Israeli private intelligence company Rayzone Group appears to have had access to the global telecommunications network via a mobile operator in the Channel Islands in the first half of 2018, potentially enabling its clients at that time to track the locations of mobile phones across the world. Invoices seen by the Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism suggest Rayzone, a corporate spy agency that provides its government clients with “geolocation tools”, used an intermediary in 2018 to lease an access point into the telecoms netw...
NSO used real people’s location data to pitch its contact-tracing tech, researchers say Researchers say NSO's use of real data "violated the privacy" of thousands of unwitting people. Spyware maker NSO Group used real phone location data on thousands of unsuspecting people when it demonstrated its new COVID-19 contact-tracing system to governments and journalists, researchers have concluded. NSO, a private intelligence company best known for developing and selling governments access to its Pegasus spyware, went on the charm offensive earlier this year to pitch its contact-tracing system, du...
ykemp@tribunemedia.net Bahamas-based cyber security experts yesterday argued that the Bahamas Telecommunications Company's (BTC) outdated network equipment left it vulnerable to penetration by malign actors. Scott MacKenzie, Cloud Carib's managing director, told Tribune Business that it was easy to access BTC’s systems because the carrier, and possibly its immediate parent, Cable and Wireless Communications (CWC), were using legacy networks and equipment that are at least 20 years out-of-date. Speaking following allegations that Chinese state-owned entities had used BTC's network to spy on ...
rrolle@tribunemedia.net THE Chinese Embassy in The Bahamas said reports that China has spied on Americans via Caribbean phone networks are false and another attempt by the United States to sow discord between China and Caribbean countries. The claims of China’s spying prompted a strong response from the US Embassy in Nassau yesterday. The embassy’s Public Affairs Officer Daniel Durazo said in a statement to The Tribune: “As Secretary of State Pompeo has said, allowing untrusted, high-risk vendors into telecommunications networks makes critical systems vulnerable to disruption, manipulat...