Veteran Israeli journalist, Amir Oren, posted a series of tweets revealing news even more troubling than we’ve been reading about NSO Group. We thought we were dealing with a runaway Israeli company wreaking havoc among human rights activists, political dissidents and even national leaders in 50 countries. But it’s far worse than that. Where do […]
NSO Group Targets 50,000 Cell Phone Numbers in 50 Countries: Presidents, Prime Ministers, US Diplomat, Security Officials
The Washington Post published yet another blockbuster story about NSO Group based on a list of 50,000 cell phone numbers it’s suspected of hacking on behalf of scores of repressive regimes. Among the suspected victims were powerful heads of state including three presidents (France’s Macron, South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa, and Iraq’s Barham Salih), one […]
Who Hacked Jeff Bezos?
There has been, and will be much written about today’s shocking development, in which Jeff Bezos revealed that the National Enquirer attempted to blackmail him. Bezos’ original statement is here. The tabloid outlet threatened to reveal salacious pictures of him with his girlfriend if he did not back off the Washington Post’s reporting on the […]
Protecting Whistleblowers
Yesterday, The Intercept published an extremely important report based on secret documents from an NSA contractor. It showed that Russia not only intervened in the U.S. election in favor of Trump in ways we already knew. But it also attempted to intervene in far more troubling ways: apparently seeking to sabotage the voter registration and voter tallies […]
