Latest: Middle East Eye published my new piece on the failure of Israel’s cyber-sabotage campaign against Iran. Please give it a read. Frontline Defenders published a major report that six Palestinian human rights staff members working for NGOs designated by the Israeli defense ministry as terror groups, were hacked by NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. Apparently, […]
US Blacklists Israeli Cyber-Predator, NSO Group After Digital Privacy NGOs expose NSO's global assaults against human rights, US levies sanctions
The US Commerce Department announced that it was blacklisting the Israeli malware maker, NSO Group, after digital rights NGOs exposed the widespread use of its spyware to target journalists, lawyers and human rights activists in 50 countries. The designation found that the Israeli company had acted “contrary to the foreign policy and national security interests […]
Likud Exposes Entire Israeli Voter Database to Russian, U. S. Intelligence
DONATION: Though the outlines of this story have been reported by Israeli and foreign media, there is much reported below you will not find anywhere else. No one else is obsessive and committed enough to dig up Israeli cyber-security activists and comb through Hebrew language technical reports and legal filings as I have done here. […]
Israel, Its Malcontents and Cybersecurity
Those who’ve been following this blog for some time will know that it’s been subject to various forms of sabotage, hacking and general nuisance attacks. There was a DDOS attack and a hack which vandalized the site. An Israeli attempted to hack my Paypal account causing it to be temporarily frozen, and there have been […]
