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Surveillance vendors caught abusing telecom access to track people’s phone locations, investigators say
By techtost.com
Security researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that exploit known weaknesses in the global telecommunications infrastructure to track people’s locations. Researchers say these two campaigns…
Yet another government spyware maker has been arrested after its customers used fake Android apps to install the surveillance software on targets, according to a new…
Apple released a software update Wednesday for iPhones and iPads, fixing a bug that allowed law enforcement to retrieve messages that had been automatically deleted or…
As US spy laws expire, lawmakers divided over protecting Americans from warrantless surveillance
By techtost.com
A longstanding law that allows US intelligence agencies to collect and analyze vast amounts of communications abroad without the need for search warrants is set to…
As US spy laws expire, lawmakers divided over protecting Americans from warrantless surveillance
By techtost.com
A longstanding law that allows U.S. intelligence agencies to collect and analyze vast amounts of communications abroad without the need for search warrants is set to…
WhatsApp is alerting hundreds of users who installed a fake app made by a government-run spyware maker
By techtost.com
WhatsApp says it has notified about 200 users who were tricked into installing a maliciously fake version of the chat app that contained spyware. WhatsApp has…
Italian prosecutors have confirmed that a journalist was attacked with Paragon spyware
By techtost.com
Italian authorities have confirmed that a journalist notified by WhatsApp last year of a suspected spyware attack on his phone was indeed hacked. In a press…
Brian Merchant, who writes for Blood on the machinereports that people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras amid growing public outrage…
Cellebrite cut off Serbia citing misuse of its phone unlocking tools. Why not others?
By techtost.com
Last year, phone-hacking tools maker Cellebrite announced it had suspended Serbian police as a customer after human rights investigators alleged local police and intelligence services used…
Intellexa’s Predator spyware used to hack journalist’s iPhone in Angola, investigation finds
By techtost.com
A government client of spyware maker Intellexa hacked the phone of a prominent journalist in Angola, according to Amnesty International, the latest case of someone in…