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Amazon Web Services bans accounts linked with Pegasus spyware

The Verge

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has banned NSO Group, the company behind the Pegasus spyware program. Vice reported the ban this morning, the day after a sweeping report alleged Pegasus was used to target the phones of human rights activists and journalists. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Programs are spies and they like us.

IT Toolbox

I just recently read a news article on how HP sneakily slipped in a spyware program onto recent HP computers under the guise of an update. However, it wasn't an update at all but a new program altogether and it sent information back to HP on a daily basis. People have given reports

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Breaking: Apple Sues 'Abusive State-Actor' NSO Group

SecureWorld News

The steps we’re taking today will send a clear message: In a free society, it is unacceptable to weaponize powerful state-sponsored spyware against those who seek to make the world a better place.". That behavior by NSO Group, according to Citizen Lab and Apple, includes secret installation of Pegasus Spyware. And he didn't stop there.

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Fed Tech Roundup July 24

CTOvision

Advanced spyware for Android now available to script kiddies everywhere. Johnson, Carper move to authorize DHS Einstein program. Verisign Reports Second Quarter 2015 Results. Verisign Reports Second Quarter 2015 Results. Federal Lab Explodes, Police Say Evidence Points to a Meth Lab | Mediaite - Mediaite. Talk more cloud.

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The Zero Click, Zero Day iMessage Attack Against Journalists

SecureWorld News

Pegasus spyware is a phone surveillance solution that enables customers to remotely exploit and monitor devices. The logs from the phone show that the spyware was accessing different frameworks on the phone, including the Celestial.framework and MediaExperience.framework, which can be used to record audio and camera data.

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Fed Tech News Roundup

CTOvision

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem: Senate advances secret plan forcing Internet services to report terror activity Ars Technica (Today) - Legislation modeled on 2008 law requiring Internet companies to report child porn.The legislation, approved 15-0 in a closed-door hearing, remains "classified."

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Security attacks and countermeasures

Cloud Musings

A mid-year breach report from Risk Based Security and the OSF [4] cited that 59% of reported attacks were in the business sector, followed by 16.1% via email) and attaches itself into files and other programs Downloader Software that downloads executable malicious code without the users knowledge or consent Figure 1.

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