Gizmodo

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Sources told Bloomberg that the company’s cumbersome mixture of unpaid debts and growing international scrutiny have made NSO a bloated pariah and is forcing its leadership to consider shutting down its Pegasus spyware unit. S… Read more.

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Gizmodo

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Earlier this week, the Department of Justice revealed that three former U.S. intelligence operatives were facing federal charges in connection with their work for BlackMatter, a foreign cybersecurity company based in the United Arab Emirates. Read more.

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The Verge

APRIL 28, 2021

Next week, Epic Games and Apple will appear in court for a long-anticipated legal battle. Epic argues that Apple unfairly kicked its hit game Fortnite off the App Store last year, exercising an illegal monopoly over the ubiquitous iOS platform. Apple and Epic both filed revised tentative witness lists on April 26th.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 22, 2021

For years, the Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group has sparked fear and fascination throughout the international community via its hacking tools—the likes of which have been sold to authoritarian governments throughout the world and used against journalists, activists, politicians, and anybody else unfortunate enough to… Read more.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

and could hack the Apple iPhone 11. Pegasus spyware is a phone surveillance solution that enables customers to remotely exploit and monitor devices. Citizen Lab says this was due to an apparent Apple related exploit. Spyware attacks becoming harder to detect. Spyware attacks becoming harder to detect.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 16, 2023

We normalize the use of surveilling and tracking young people through "parentware" or spyware (software which allows someone to see what someone else is doing on their device) and apps which enable the tracking of someone's location. Google and Apple have these built-in if you have an Android or iPhone. Use good passwords.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Some of those who bought the spyware were allegedly able to see live locations of the devices, view the targets emails, photos, web browsing history, text messages, video calls, etc. I am a coordinator, the Coalition Against Spyware. Vamosi: That's a gray area with the Internet of Things. There are legitimate apps for that.

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Vox

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Some say Apple’s App Store is a monopoly. Apple says it’s just giving customers what they want. Over the next few weeks, we’ll cover what’s happening with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. Apple is facing growing scrutiny for the tight control it has over so much of the mobile-first, app-centric world it created.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

Among the hacked accounts were President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, the Apple and Uber corporate accounts, and pop star Kanye West. Apple won its court fight against European Union Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager over a record $14.9 The spyware was made by Israel’s NSO Group.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2022

This genre of tech coverage focused on how to improve the internet, largely through regulations and breaking up big tech companies. This genre of tech coverage focuses on efforts to rebuild large parts of the internet using cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. Trump-era vibe: Fix the web. See “TikTok is the center,” above.).

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

The US government sued Microsoft for bundling its Internet Explorer browser with Windows out of fears that doing so would permanently entrench its monopoly in personal computers. When I wrote about it here last year , it was in the context of a new European internet emerging alongside the American and Sino-Russian authoritarian ones.

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