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NSO CEO claims Facebook wanted NSO surveillance tool to spy on users

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In October 2019, WhatsApp sued the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group accusing it of carrying out malicious attacks against its users. According to the NSO CEO, Facebook was interested in improving surveillance capabilities on iOS devices of the Onavo Protect. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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VPNpro research: this Chinese-linked company secretly owns 10 VPNs with 86 million installs

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Innovative Connecting is actually a Chinese company that secretly owns 10 VPN products with a total of 86 million installs under its belt. The study also revealed that two of those VPN products are under its other developer name, Lemon Clove, and another two by Autumn Breeze 2018. Innovative Connecting VPNs products.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 286

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The Russian Government blocked ProtonMail and ProtonVPN

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The p opular ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service have been blocked by the Russian government this week. This week the Russian government has blocked the ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 259

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 209 – News of the week

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Experts spotted the iOS version of the Exodus surveillance app. VPN apps insecurely store session cookies in memory and log files. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. LimeRAT spreads in the wild.

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The War in Technology: A Digital Iron Curtain Goes Up

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And it might have been prepared for this moment, years ago, as a surveillance tool. It's easy to put surveillance on telecoms if you have a foothold," Kubecka said. Of course, people in Russia who can convince the Internet they aren't in Russia can still access these services through use of a VPN—a virtual private network.