Joy and her family are among two million Nigerians living within 4km of a gas flare in Nigeria’s oil-rich south. Climate change has had a devastating impact on Nigeria. Fertile lands are turning into deserts in the north, while flash floods have become more common in the south. The country’s oil industry is making things…
As part of the Pegasus Project, forensic analyses revealed that 67 phones had shown signs of a successful Pegasus infection or intrusion attempt. Amnesty International’s Security Lab, a technical partner of the investigation, said last week that it has confirmed infections or traces of Pegasus spyware in 15 additional phones since the stories were first…
The flaw, disclosed Monday by Citizen Lab, allowed a hacker using NSO’s malware Pegasus to gain access to a device owned by a Saudi activist, according to security researchers. By Kartikay Mehrotra and Davide Scigliuzzo and William TurtonBloomberg Apple Inc. said it patched a security flaw in the Messages app after security researchers determined that Israel-based NSO Group…
Application Security , Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Citizen Lab Says iMessage Exploit Delivered NSO’s Pegasus Spyware Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • September 14, 2021 Photo: Flickr/CC Apple issued an emergency patch a software vulnerability on Monday that researchers say was used to deliver spyware via iMessage to the mobile phones of…
Cybersecurity company Radware is in talks to sell itself to private equity firm Siris Capital, CNBC reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Shares of the American-Israeli company rose 7.3 percent in afternoon trade. The deal is not assured and the talks may fall apart, the CNBC report added. Radware did not immediately…
In this episode, Tripwire’s Brent Holder and Raymond Kirk discuss what cloud security means today. Breaking down the different aspects of cloud security controls, they cover the technology, security implications and risks with cloud use. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5UDKiGLlzxhiGnd6FtvEnmStitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-tripwire-cybersecurity-podcastRSS: https://tripwire.libsyn.com/rssYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgTfY3TXF9YKE9pUKp57pGSTaapTLpvC3 Tim Erlin: On the latest episode of the Tripwire Cybersecurity Podcast, I had the pleasure…
A cyber surveillance company based in Israel has developed a tool that can break into Apple iPhones with a never-before-seen technique used at least since February, internet security watchdog group Citizen Lab said on Monday. The discovery is important because of the critical nature of the vulnerability, which affects all versions of Apple’s iOS, OSX,…
Social media companies have been introducing new features which offer the ability to shop within their platforms, so businesses can take customers to the checkout without leaving the apps. So how will this change how we interact with social media? BBC Click’s Osman Iqbal reports. See more at Click’s website and @BBCClick
Apple released an emergency software patch to fix a security vulnerability that researchers said could allow hackers to directly infect Apple devices without any user action. The researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said the flaw allowed spyware from the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire firm, NSO Group, to directly infect the iPhone of…
Some grieved, some helped and some worried. Two decades after the terror attacks on the United States on 11 September, 2001, four people from around the world reflect on how they reacted that day, and what’s changed since. Video by Alexandra Ostasiewicz and Dan Lytwyn
