SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Alarming details have emerged about the exploitation of two Zero-Day vulnerabilities to deploy NSO Group's Pegasus commercial spyware on iPhones. Citizen Lab says that it immediately disclosed these findings to Apple and assisted in its investigation. Apple followed up with a security update last week.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2021

Amnesty International — part of the group that helped break the news of journalists and heads of state being targeted by NSO’s government-grade spyware, Pegasus — has released a tool to check if your phone has been affected. Using the tool involves backing up your phone to a separate computer and running a check on that backup.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 16, 2023

We normalize the use of surveilling and tracking young people through "parentware" or spyware (software which allows someone to see what someone else is doing on their device) and apps which enable the tracking of someone's location. Google and Apple have these built-in if you have an Android or iPhone. Use good passwords.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Apple has released a suite of new updates for iOS , macOS , and watchOS to fix a bug that security researchers at Citizen Lab say was very likely exploited to allow government agencies to install spyware into the phones of journalists, lawyers, and activists. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. macOS Big Sur 11.6,

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Some of those who bought the spyware were allegedly able to see live locations of the devices, view the targets emails, photos, web browsing history, text messages, video calls, etc. I am a coordinator, the Coalition Against Spyware. So here's the thing, SpyPhone is not an isolated incident.

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