SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

FurBall has been used since June 2021 to distribute a fraudulent translation app that mimics an Iranian website which provides translated articles, journals, and books. This version has similar spyware functionality as before, except " the threat actors slightly obfuscated class and method names, strings, logs, and server URIs."

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The Verge

JANUARY 22, 2022

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee is telling athletes to ditch their personal phones for burners ahead of next month’s Winter Olympics in China, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal (via Android Central ). Your device(s) may also be compromised with malicious software, which could negatively impact future use.”

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Here is the latest technology news from across the tech community: What’s the right relationship between technology companies and journalism? We like to self-flagellate in journalism, and here is another birch twig to … Read more on The Guardian (blog). Regin, new computer spyware, discovered by Symantec.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The infamous Israel-based NSO Group, known for its hacking spyware Pegasus, was placed on the United States Government's Entity List for engaging in malicious cyber activities, along with three other foreign companies, Candiru, Computer Security Initiative Consultancy PTE (COSEINC), and Positive Technologies.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

MAY 11, 2007

It would also be interesting to observe that a recent Wall Street Journal article states that there are 85 million SharePoint users out there, across over 17,000 organizations. Versioning solutions are complex and security problems abound with xls and docs all over the planet in temp folders or saved locally.

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Vox

DECEMBER 4, 2021

A hack targeting US officials is just the latest problem for NSO Group, the Israeli company behind Pegasus spyware. The aim, according to the Wall Street Journal , is to create a framework around the export and licensing controls of such technology, as well as create an information-sharing network to detect and report on its misuse.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

And then Google made Chrome, and Microsoft just kept making Internet Explorer, and Microsoft made a series of really bad mobile phones, and Apple made a good one, and within a few years Microsoft was an enterprise software company with a video game console division and it was hard to remember what the whole fuss had been about in the first place.

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