spyware
Is spyware technology helping governments hack phones? | Technology
In October 2019, the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp filed a lawsuit against a little known Israeli technology company called NSO Group. It accused the group of being responsible for a series of highly sophisticated cyber-attacks on 1,400 of its users, many of them human rights activists, journalists and diplomatic officials. It was the latest twist …
Clash over surveillance software turns personal in Germany, Technology
[LONDON] Markus Beckedahl was visiting Detroit when a legal threat arrived in his email inbox from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean: a cease-and-desist letter from lawyers representing FinFisher, a German company that sells surveillance technology that it says helps law enforcement stamp out crime. Mr Beckedahl, the 42-year-old founder of Netzpolitik, a German …
Google Yanks Seven Stalkerware Apps Discovered by Security Researchers From the Play Store
A man walking past a building at Google’s Mountain View, California headquarters in 2015.Photo: Jeff Chiu (AP) Google has yanked several apps from its Play Store after cybersecurity firm Avast identified them as “all likely designed by a Russian developer to allow people to stalk employees, romantic partners, or kids,” CNET reported on Wednesday. The …
