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China’s Huawei unveils in-house PC operating system to replace Microsoft’s Windows

Monday, May 19, 2025 3:03 pm2 Comments

Chinese Communist Party-controlled Huawei Technologies Co. debuted its first in-house operating system for personal computers, offering…

Apple notifies iPhone users in 100 countries of spyware attacks

Friday, May 2, 2025 11:00 am3 Comments

Apple notified multiple iPhone users this week, informing them they may have been targeted by government spyware, as reported by…

Apple seeks to drop its lawsuit against Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group

Tuesday, September 17, 2024 10:16 amMonday, September 16, 2024No Comments

Apple has requested that a court dismiss its three-year-old lawsuit against NSO Group, a spyware company. The tech giant argues that it…

Spyware firm QuaDream said to have helped hack iPhones running older iOS 14

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 3:03 pmTuesday, April 11, 20232 Comments

Hacking tools sold by a little-known Israeli vendor QuaDream have been used to break into the iPhones of journalists and political…

Republican lawmakers press Apple and FBI over spyware from Israeli NSO Group

Thursday, March 3, 2022 5:35 pmThursday, March 3, 20223 Comments

Two Republican lawmakers are pressing Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation about Pegasus spyware made by the NSO Group …

Saudi woman’s single iPhone revealed hacking around the world

Thursday, February 17, 2022 11:55 amThursday, February 17, 20224 Comments

A single iPhone, Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathlou’s, helped turn the tide against NSO Group, one of the world’s most…

Second Israeli spy firm used now-fixed ForcedEntry exploit to break into iPhones

Thursday, February 3, 2022 10:09 amNo Comments

A now-fixed flaw in Apple’s software exploited by Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group to break into iPhones in 2021 was also abused…

Can Apple beat NSO Group, the world’s most notorious spyware company?

Friday, December 3, 2021 5:38 pmFriday, December 3, 20219 Comments

Numerous reporters, human rights defenders, and high-ranking officials across the world are increasingly becoming the NGO Group’s …

U.S. State Department iPhones hacked with Israeli NSO Group spyware

Friday, December 3, 2021 1:02 pmFriday, December 3, 20217 Comments

Apple iPhones of at least nine U.S. State Department employees were hacked by an unknown assailant using sophisticated spyware developed…

Apple begins alerting customers who may have been targeted by NSO Group

Wednesday, November 24, 2021 8:58 amThursday, February 3, 2022No Comments

After Apple filed a lawsuit against NSO Group and its parent company to hold it accountable for the surveillance and targeting of Apple…

Apple sues NSO Group over state-sponsored surveillance and targeting of Apple users

Tuesday, November 23, 2021 1:14 pmTuesday, November 23, 20216 Comments

Apple today filed a lawsuit against NSO Group and its parent company to hold it accountable for the surveillance and targeting of Apple…

Apple adds ‘BlastDoor’ security feature to fight iMessage hacks

Thursday, February 18, 2021 4:25 pm1 Comment

Apple has added a ‘BlastDoor’ security feature across its operating systems to battle hacks into its devices via incoming iMessages…

Dozens of media staffers’ iPhones hacked with NSO ‘zero-click’ spyware

Monday, December 21, 2020 9:29 am3 Comments

In July and August 2020, government operatives used NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to hack 36 personal iPhones belonging to journalists…

Powerful spyware app first designed for Android targets iPhone owners

Monday, April 8, 2019 5:15 pm7 Comments

Security researchers have discovered a powerful surveillance app first designed for Android devices…

NSO Group employee allegedly stole company’s powerful iPhone spyware for personal profit

Friday, July 6, 2018 4:29 pmFriday, July 6, 20187 Comments

NSO Group sells some of the most potent, off-the-shelf malware for remotely breaking into smartphones…

OpinionSpy spyware rears its ugly head on Macs once again

Thursday, February 12, 2015 12:50 pm9 Comments

A new variant of the OSX/OpinionSpy spyware…

Why Edward Snowden won’t use an iPhone: Secret Apple spyware?

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 10:26 amWednesday, January 21, 201530 Comments

Is Apple’s wildly popular iPhone series hiding spyware, claims…

Spyware app can secretly take photos from Google Glass without user’s knowledge

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 12:04 pm14 Comments

The app takes a photo every 10 seconds when the display is off…

Microsoft patents spy tech for Skype; ‘Legal Intercept’ will allow company to secretly record VoIP communications

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 11:28 amWednesday, June 29, 201143 Comments

Microsoft’s “Legal Intercept” is designed to silently record communications on VoIP networks such as Skype…

Microsoft CEO Ballmer spends two days unsuccessfully trying to clean Windows PC malware

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Microsoft executives love telling stories against each other. Here’s one that platforms vice-president Jim Allchin…

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