Tag: citizenlab
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VB2018 video: Foreverdays: tracking and mitigating threats targeting civil society orgs
Israel’s NSO Group is in hot water following a Haaretz report that revealed that the company negotiated with the Saudi government on the sale of its spyware, leading the local branch of Amnesty International to call for the firm’s export licence to be revoked. The list of targets of the group’s Pegasus spyware makes for…
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VB2018 video: Foreverdays: tracking and mitigating threats targeting civil society orgs
Israel’s NSO Group is in hot water following a Haaretz report that revealed that the company negotiated with the Saudi government on the sale of its spyware, leading the local branch of Amnesty International to call for the firm’s export licence to be revoked. The list of targets of the group’s Pegasus spyware makes for…
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We shouldn’t forget those most vulnerable in our digital world
The new UK government has passed a far-reaching surveillance law . The new US government has stripped privacy rights from non-citizens. Surely, those who have warned about the threat of Western intelligence agencies have a reason to feel vindicated. In the post-Snowden era of IT security, many improvements to technology have made it a lot…
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We shouldn’t forget those most vulnerable in our digital world
The new UK government has passed a far-reaching surveillance law . The new US government has stripped privacy rights from non-citizens. Surely, those who have warned about the threat of Western intelligence agencies have a reason to feel vindicated. In the post-Snowden era of IT security, many improvements to technology have made it a lot…
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Opposition activists in Asia and Africa targeted by spyware developed by Western companies
Mozilla angry about use of its brand and logo. A new report has been released on the commercialization of digital spying, which thoroughly analyses a number of pieces of spyware developed by Western companies and used to target opposition activists in various countries in Africa and Asia. CitizenLab , a research institute linked to the…