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Apple Patches Vulnerabilities in iOS Exploited by Spyware

eSecurity Planet

Apple continues to be haunted by spyware developed by an Israeli security firm that hostile governments used to hack into Apple devices to spy on journalists, activists and world leaders (see Apple Security Under Scrutiny Amid Fallout from NSO Spyware Scandal ). operating system was being exploited by the invasive Pegasus spyware.

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Pegasus spyware has been here for years. We must stop ignoring it

Malwarebytes

Pegasus is spyware, and spyware is not made to respect privacy. According to NSO Group, its main spyware program is a beneficial tool for investigating and preventing terrorist attacks and maintaining the safety of the public. This was the worst time of my life and yet the killers were spying on me. They have no shame.

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Defeating Little Brother requires a new outlook on privacy: Lock and Code S04E23

Malwarebytes

“My question to you is, as with all forms of technology, there are two very different sides for this. But the type of surveillance we’re talking about today is different. It isn’t so much “Big Brother”—a concept introduced in the socio-dystopian novel 1984 by author George Orwell. So is it bad? Is it good?

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Meet the World’s Biggest ‘Bulletproof’ Hoster

Krebs on Security

I first encountered Yalishanda back in 2010, after writing about “Fizot,” the nickname used by another miscreant who helped customers anonymize their cybercrime traffic by routing it through a global network of Microsoft Windows computers infected with a powerful malware strain called TDSS. biz: -Based in Asia and Europe. -It

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

1903 — Wireless Telegraphy — During John Ambrose Fleming’s first public demonstration of Marconi’s “secure” wireless telegraphy technology, Nevil Maskelyne disrupts it by sending insulting Morse code messages discrediting the invention. 2010 — Zeus Trojan Virus — An Eastern European cybercrime ring steals $70 million from U.S.