As the date of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan approaches, Biden administration officials and top lawmakers are urgently working on resettling a particularly vulnerable group of Afghans, according to officials in Washington: people who worked as the CIA’s local...
Rajya Sabha member John Brittas has moved the Supreme Court for a court-monitored investigation into allegations of snooping on activists, politicians, journalists and constitutional functionaries using the Israeli spyware, Pegasus.
The parliamentarian said the government’s response in the House to...
LONDON—As the Delta variant of the coronavirus surges through the U.K., almost half of the country’s recent Covid-19 deaths are of people who have been vaccinated. But doctors and scientists aren’t sounding the alarm about the apparently high proportion...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will raise issues of human rights and democracy with Indian officials during his first visit to New Delhi as the two nations have more values in common on those fronts than otherwise, according to...
Associate editor at Forbes, covering cybercrime, privacy, security and surveillance.
Shalev Hulio, 39, is the CEO and cofounder of NSO Group, one of Israel's most successful cybersurveillance companies valued at over $1 billion, and the man ultimately responsible for smartphone...
Waning antibody levels are possible warning sign of lower protection in months after vaccination
Scientists have backed proposals for Covid boosters in the autumn after blood tests on hundreds of people revealed that protective antibodies can wane substantially within weeks...
The Biden administration has condemned the harassment and ‘extrajudicial surveillance’ of journalists and others in reaction to reports published by a consortium of news websites that Israeli company NSO Group’s spyware, Pegasus, was used for illegal hacking and surveillance...
Researchers at Amnesty International have developed a toolkit that can help users identify whether their phone was infected by the spyware.
Pegasus spyware is once again at the centre of a major controversy after a two year hiatus. Global reports...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is likely to visit India on his maiden trip next week since assuming charges under the Biden Administration in January, according to news agency ANI quoting government officials familiar with the development.
While Blinken...
Opposition accuses Modi of compromising national security following revelations that dozens of Indians were potential targets of snooping by Israeli-made spyware.
At least two serving ministers in the Modi government also feature in the leaked database.
At least two serving ministers...
The spyware from the Israeli company NSO utilises'zero click exploits' to access target phones; that is, it enters the phones without the targets having to take any action
The Pegasus saga has expanded with the revelation that former Congress President...
Spyware sold to authoritarian regimes used to target activists, politicians and journalists, data suggests.
The investigation by the Guardian and 16 other media organisations suggests widespread and continuing abuse of NSO’s hacking spyware. Illustration: Guardian Design
The Pegasus project
The investigation by...
