Amid fears the Chinese Communist Party’s digital payment system could allow CHina to spy on Americans, Republican Senators want to bar…
Tag: surveillance
Republican lawmakers press Apple and FBI over spyware from Israeli NSO Group
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
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
A now-fixed flaw in Apple’s software exploited by Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group to break into iPhones in 2021 was also abused…
Americans trust Google and Amazon more than Apple to handle their personal data
According to a Washington Post-Schar School poll conducted November 4-22, 2021, Americans trust Google and Amazon more than Apple…
Can Apple beat NSO Group, the world’s most notorious spyware company?
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
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
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
Apple today filed a lawsuit against NSO Group and its parent company to hold it accountable for the surveillance and targeting of Apple…
Cyber surveillance firm has been able to break into Apple iPhones for at least six months
NSO Group, a cyber surveillance company based in Israel, has developed a tool than can break into Apple iPhones with a never-before-seen…
Apple releases iOS 14.8 and iPadOS 14.8
Apple today released iOS 14.8 for iPhone and iPod touch and iPadOS 14.8 for iPad, iPad mini, iPad Air, and iPad Pro which Apples says…
China will limit kids to 3 hours per week of online gaming
China is banning kids from gaming online for more than three hours per week. Under 2019 rules, people under 18 years old were allowed…
Apple’s iOS 15: A modest release with major features delayed
Apple’s iOS 15 will arrive with major features delayed as the company continues its lamentable tradition of delaying features from its next…
Apple call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance, cameras to monitor work performance
Apple call center workers are being pressured to sign a contract that lets their employer install surveillance cameras in their homes to…
Apple quietly publishes human rights policy ahead of shareholder motion deadline
Apple’s board of directors has approved a “human rights” policy and quietly published it ahead of a September 5th deadline for shareholders…
Google again removes alleged spying app ToTok from Play Store
Google has once again removed the chat app ToTok, which is allegedly an espionage tool for the United Arab Emirates, from the Play Store …
Apple pulls Emirati messaging app ‘ToTok’ for spying on users by UAE government
ToTok, is actually a spying tool, according to American officials familiar with a classified intelligence assessment…
U.S. Senators threaten Apple and Facebook with mandated encryption backdoors
U.S. senators grilled Apple Inc and Facebook Inc executives over their encryption practices on Tuesday and threatened to regulate the technology unless…
Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system
A technology-enabled, surveillance-based nationwide program designed to nudge citizens toward better behavior…
Apple, Mozilla, Google move to block Kazakh surveillance system
The former Soviet Central Asian nation routinely blocks websites and applications used by its critics, including Facebook and Youtube, for short periods of time…
Sign in with Apple is just part one of a larger war
Sign in with Apple may not solve the problem yet, a data harvesting company has said…
“Delete Facebook,” urges Woz
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak thinks most of us should hurry up and find a way to delete Facebook…
Super Micro ditching ‘made-in-China’ parts despite no evidence of Bloomberg Businessweek’s spy chip claims
Super Micro Computer, the California-based server maker at the heart of spy chip allegations last autumn…
FBI Director Christopher Wray continues pushing for encryption back doors
The encryption war is quiet now, but the murky back-and-forth between…
Cellebrite, the Feds’ favorite iPhone hacking tool, is selling on ebay for $100 – and it’s leaking data
hen eBay merchant Mr. Balaj was looking through a pile of hi-fi junk at an auction in the U.K…
FBI: End-to-end encryption like Apple’s ‘infects’ law enforcement
Nearly three years after the Federal Bureau of Investigation abandoned an effort to force Apple Inc…
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others denounce Australia’s ‘deeply flawed’ anti-encryption law
Apple, Google and Microsoft have denounced the Australian government’s decision to pass an anti-encryption law that…
Tests of Super Micro equipment find no malicious chips in current or older-model motherboards
Computer hardware maker Super Micro Computer Inc told customers on Tuesday…
Backdoors: Australia passes laws allowing spies and police to snoop on encrypted communications
Australia Thursday passed controversial laws allowing spies and police to snoop on the encrypted communications…
Bloomberg Businessweek should retract or unequivocally prove their Supermicro spy chip yarn
Apple, Amazon, the government, national security advisors, and independent technology experts alike have all said Bloomberg Businessweek is wrong…
Investigating implausible Bloomberg Businessweek’s Supermicro spy chip yarn
Bloomberg Businessweek needs to retract the story and investigate how this passed editorial muster and was published…
AWS CEO joins Tim Cook in urging Bloomberg Businessweek to retract its Chinese spy chip yarn
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy has joined Apple CEO Tim Cook…
Super Micro to review hardware for malicious chips
Despite the lack of any proof that a malicious hardware chip exists, we are undertaking a complicated and time-consuming review…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Bloomberg Businessweek should do the right thing and retract its Chinese spy chip story
We turned the company upside down. This did not happen. There’s no truth to this…
Facebook really is spying on you – just not through your phone’s mic
Facebook is now so good at watching what we do online — and even offline, wandering around the physical world — it doesn’t need to hear us…
Apple to Australia: This is no time to weaken encryption; access only for ‘good guys’ is a false premise
Apple has filed its formal opposition to a new bill currently being proposed by the Australian government…
Apple urges Australian government not to destroy encryption with ‘backdoors’
Apple has submitted its formal response to a draft bill undergoing debate by the Australian government…
NSA security adviser says ‘nobody’s found anything’ on Chinese chips
NSA senior adviser for cybersecurity Rob Joyce tells…
NSA Senior Cybersecurity Advisor questions Bloomberg Businessweek’s China iCloud spy chip claim
Rob Joyce, Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity Strategy at the NSA, is the latest official to question…
Before China iCloud spy chip allegations, Bloomberg published these five incorrect stories about Apple
Media personalities have been bending over backward to find a way to square the claims…
U.S. Senators Rubio and Blumenthal demand answers from Supermicro over spy chip allegations
A pair of senators have written to Supermicro requesting more information about events…
Apple CEO Tim Cook is in Shanghai in possible PR move after Bloomberg Businessweek’s spy chip yarn
Apple CEO Tim Cook is currently visiting Shanghai…
