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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. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. 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.

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Common Techniques Hackers Use to Penetrate Systems and How to Protect Your Organization

ForAllSecure

Malware Malware, according to the Federal Trade Commission , “includes viruses, spyware, ransomware, and other unwanted software that gets secretly installed onto your device.” This can cause the program to crash or allow an attacker to execute malicious code.

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NSO’s Pegasus spyware: here’s what we know

The Verge

Throughout the past week, we’ve seen story after story about a company called NSO Group, and a piece of spyware called Pegasus. Amnesty International ran detailed forensics on 67 smartphones to look for evidence that they were targeted by Pegasus spyware — and 37 of those phones tested positive. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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How to Avoid the Potential Security Risks Associated with Online Gaming?

Galido

Statistics anticipate that the number of online gamers will grow over 57 million in 2020. The program on these pages then damages the whole system. Use Anti-Spyware. Although the market keeps growing, data breaches in digital gaming are more than the companies admit. Attackers use malware to redirect users on bogus web pages.

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How much control should Apple have over your iPhone?

Vox

Apple won’t say how big, but an expert said he believes the App Store alone made $22 billion in 2020, about 80 percent of which was profit. They control how apps get on — it’s unilateral.”. This has all been a big moneymaker for Apple. We’ve seen this precedent at work in the Epic Games v. Apple case.

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The massive Twitter hack could be a global security crisis

The Verge

Whatever Twitter eventually comes to say about the events of July 15th, 2020, when it suffered the most catastrophic security breach in company history , it must be said that the events were set in motion years ago. Israeli 2009 Stuxnet attack , which destroyed centrifuges that Iran used to enrich uranium gas for its nuclear program.

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Antitrust investigations aren’t the biggest threat to Facebook’s future

The Verge

Facebook is accusing the spyware maker of creating accounts to send malware to mobile phones of 1,400 people to snoop on them. Elizabeth Warren is demanding more information about the reported “loophole” for climate misinformation in Facebook’s fact-checking program. erin whitehead (@girlwithatail) July 18, 2020. Related: Sen.