Google, Cisco and VMware join Microsoft to oppose NSO Group in WhatsApp spyware case
Silicon Valley tech giants say spyware maker NSO Group should not be allowed to claim immunity.
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Law enforcement wiretapped the very service used by criminals to evade interception
The virtual private network (VPN) Safe-Inet used by the world’s foremost cybercriminals has been taken down in a coordinated law enforcement action
The vulnerabilities that allowed Russia’s SolarWinds hack have been known for decades
The awareness that something like this could happen dates all the way back to the dawn of the internet, when it was a Defense Department research-sharing project called the ARPANET.
Trump Twitter Account Hacker Won’t Be Punished
The Netherlands’ Public Prosecution Service has announced that, the Dutch hacker who broke into the Twitter account of Donald Trump, will not be punished.
Firefox to ship ‘network partitioning’ as a new anti-tracking defense
Firefox 85 will ship with a feature named Network Partitioning as a new form of anti-tracking protection.
Europol and the European Commission inaugurate new decryption platform
Europol has launched an innovative decryption platform, developed in close cooperation with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.
Sensitive Data Leak From Baidu Apps Allows Lifetime User Tracking According To Researchers
About 1.4 billion people worldwide were affected by the data leak from Baidu and other apps.
Study Shows Robot Vacuum Cleaners Can Be Hacked to Spy on People
By modifying LiDAR sensors on robot vacuum cleaners, hackers can use it for LidarPhone attack and listen to private conservation for extracting sensitive information.
U.S. Schools Are Buying Cellebrite Phone-Hacking Tech
Schools in the U.S. are purchasing phone surveillance tools from Cellebrite and companies that offer similar tools used by FBI.
Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol
Cloudflare and Apple say they’ve developed a new internet protocol that will make it far more difficult for internet providers to know which websites you visit.
Court orders encrypted email biz Tutanota to build a backdoor in user’s mailbox
Court in Germany last month ordered Tutanota to help investigators monitor the contents of a user’s encrypted mailbox.
US Congress passes new IoT cybersecurity law
Congress recently made significant progress toward greater IoT security in the United States when it enacted the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020.