What the Pegasus #Spyware Leak Means for Surveillance, Smartphones & #Encryption #Backdoors - PIA VPN Blog ⚓ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/what-the-new-pegasus-spyware-leak-means-for-surveillance-smartphones-encryption-backdoors/ ䷉ #privateinternetaccess

#mozilla #firefox is #spyware https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2021/07/22/this-week-in-glean-firefox-telemetry-is-to-glean-as-c-is-to-rust/ and to make matters worse, they use #microsoft #ProprietarySoftware

This Week in Glean: Firefox Telemetry is to Glean as C++ is to Rust – Data@Mozilla

(“This Week in Glean” is a series of blog posts that the Glean Team at Mozilla is using to try to communicate better about our work. They could be release ...

A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites With Hardcore Porn

... As pointed out by Twitter user @dox_gay, hardcore porn is now embedded on the pages of the Huffington Post, New York magazine, The Washington Post, and a host of other websites. This is because a porn site called 5 Star Porn HD bought the domain for Vidme, a brief YouTube competitor founded in 2014 and shuttered in 2017. Its Twitter account is still up, but the domain lapsed. ...

The trend toward embeds rather than screenshots or direct copying has long struck me as ill-conceived.

At least it's only pr0n. As a vector for malware / spyware injection, this could be even more interesting.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27924777

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xz3/a-defunct-video-hosting-site-is-flooding-normal-websites-with-hardcore-porn

#infosec #bitrot #pr0n #DNS #ItsAlwaysDNS #LapsedDomains #EmbeddedContent #malware #spyware #risks #infosec

A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites With Hardcore Porn

Stories on major news sites like ‘The Washington Post,’ and ‘New York Magazine’ currently have porn embedded in them because of an old site called Vidme.

● NEWS ● #MintPressNews #Toka #Israel #Spyware #Malware ☞ Meet Toka, the Most Dangerous Israeli Spyware Firm You've Never Heard Of https://www.mintpressnews.com/meet-toka-the-most-dangerous-israeli-spyware-firm-youve-never-heard-of/278020/

Meet Toka, the Most Dangerous Israeli Spyware Firm You've Never Heard Of

The mainstream media's myopic focus on Israel's Pegasus spyware and the threats it poses means that other companies, like Toka, go uninvestigated,  even when their products present an even greater potential for abuse and illegal surveillance.,...

Wikileaks Editor-In-Chief: Pegasus leaks show nobody is safe from espionage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs0Ag8TiL9U
https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/529787-kristinn-hrafnsson-rt-going-underground/

#goingunderground #AfshinRattansi #KristinnHrafnnson #wikileaks #editor-in-chief #publisher #journalism #espionage #pegasus #spyware #leaks #nso #israeli #software #global #surveillance #julianassange #assange #us #extradition #detention #dropthecharges #humanrights #violation #freeassange #weareallassange #RichardMurphy #uk #taxes

#Pegasus: French #President #Macron identified as #spyware target

source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57907258

Numbers on the leaked list are also said to include those of President Baram Salih of #Iraq and #SouthAfrica's Cyril Ramaphosa, as well as the current prime ministers of #Pakistan, #Egypt and #Morocco, and the King of Morocco.

More than 600 government officials and politicians from 34 countries are on the list, which is said to contain 50,000 numbers.

Who could have guessed that, through their criminal inactivity, the politicians themselves have become the victims of their insufficient policies. Let's see if they now act against surveillance or just protect themselves.

#security #privacy #nso #software #surveillance #politics #news #leak #humanrights

Pegasus: French President Macron identified as spyware target

The president's phone number was found on a list of numbers that were potential phone hacking targets.

Is ChromeOS the way to go? https://bkhome.org/news/202107/is-chromeos-the-way-to-go.html #chromos is #spyware rather than freedom

#Governments spying on human rights #activists, #journalists and #lawyers

Pegasus is a malware that infects iPhones and Android devices to enable operators of the tool to extract messages, photos and emails, record calls and secretly activate microphones.

#surveillance #spyware #Pegasus

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/revealed-leak-uncovers-global-abuse-of-cyber-surveillance-weapon-nso-group-pegasus

18.07.2021 The Guardian: Viktor Orbán using NSO spyware in assault on media, data suggests

#surveillance #Überwachung #spyware #NSO #Ungarn #Hungary #Israel #VictorOrbán

FR #Audacity, le logiciel d'édition audio open source bien connu, a été appelé #spyware dans un rapport, avec des changements de #politique de confidentialité révélant que l'outil collecte des données sur ses utilisateurs et les partage avec d'autres entreprises, ainsi que l'envoi des données en Russie.
EN #Audacity the well-known open-source audio-editing software, has been called #spyware in a report, with #privacy policy changes revealing the tool is collecting data on its users and sharing it with other firms, as well as sending the data to Russia.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/04/open-source-audacity-deemed-spyware-over-data-collection-changes

Audacity 3.0 called spyware over data collection changes by new owner | AppleInsider

Audacity, the well-known open-source audio-editing software, has been called spyware in a report, with privacy policy changes revealing the tool is collecting data on its users and sharing it with other firms, as well as sending the data to Russia.

Apple watching & logging EVERY APP YOU OPEN with new OS

#apple #scrapple #bigsur #macos #osx #spyware #logging #louis #rossmann #rossmanngroup

#finfisher is another trojan which is able to bypass encrypted #skype sessions or emails by simple get the plain text directly from the machine.
It takes control of the target machine by gettting installed via fake update sessions or somehow vie email
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-25/cyber-attacks-on-activists-traced-to-finfisher-spyware-of-gamma.html

The german government bought this software and maybe ... uses it ;theres a draft law in progress
https://www.privacyfoundation.de/wiki/BKA-Gesetz

#spyware #nsa #security #cryptography #freedom #bka #bundestrojaner

Cyber Attacks on Activists Traced to FinFisher Spyware of Gamma

It’s one of the world’s best-known and elusive cyber weapons: FinFisher, a spyware sold by U.K.- based Gamma Group, which can secretly take remote control of a computer, copying files, intercepting Skype calls and logging every keystroke.