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Sandvine ... the surveillance octopus in the Arab region - 2 janvier 2021
Partnership and business agreements between Arab governments and corporates on the one hand, and foreign companies working in the internet and communication surveillance industry (software/hardware) on the other, is currently witnessing an increase in rate and scale. The aim is to manipulate the flow of (...)
Litigation and Other Formal Complaints Concerning Targeted Digital Surveillance and the Digital Surveillance Industry - 12 décembre 2018
This is a living resource document providing links and descriptions to litigation and other formal complaints concerning digital surveillance and the digital surveillance industry. If you have additional resources to add to this document, please send to Siena Anstis : siena [at] citizen lab [dot] ca. This document (...)
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Gamma - 23 septembre 2017
Gamma International propose des logiciels espions extrêmement élaborés. Ses logiciels ont été retrouvés notamment au Bahreïn et aux Émirats arabes unis, des pays connus pour malmener les producteurs de l’information. La technologie FinFisher vendue par la société est capable de lire des fichiers encryptés, des emails, et (...)
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Le logiciel espion FinFisher serait désormais déployé par les FAI de sept pays - 23 septembre 2017
Mort, FinFisher ? Le logiciels espion qui compte parmi les plus utilisés par les gouvernements a en réalité la peau dure. Selon la firme de sécurité informatique ESET, le programme de l’industriel anglais Gamma International est loin d’être affaibli : la société note même un renforcement de sa menace dans sept pays.
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Mercenaires de la surveillance : le marché trouble des logiciels espions - 24 mai 2017
C’est un marché qui peut se révéler très lucratif, mais qui goûte peu la transparence. Depuis moins d’une dizaine d’années, des chercheurs et des ONG révèlent l’existence de logiciels espions perfectionnés, développés par des entreprises privées et vendus dans le monde entier à des services de renseignement étatiques et à des (...)
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How a Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody’s iPhone from Anywhere in the World - 28 mars 2017
Last summer, Bill Marczak stumbled across a program that could spy on your iPhone’s contact list and messages"”and even record your calls. Illuminating shadowy firms that sell spyware to corrupt governments across the globe, Marczak’s story reveals the new arena of cyber-warfare.
The night it happened, right after (...)
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New database aims to track the global surveillance industry - 2 août 2016
Privacy International releases searchable database on more than 520 surveillance companies and the powerful tools they sell to governments
Privacy International, a London-based watchdog, has launched a new searchable database on hundreds of surveillance companies across the world, as part of an effort to track a (...)
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Comment un hacker a infiltré Hacking Team et révélé ses secrets - 19 avril 2016
C’est l’été dernier que les secrets de l’entreprise Hacking Team, spécialisée dans la fourniture d’outils permettant d’effectuer une surveillance numérique, ont été divulgués. Un descriptif technique détaillant la méthode suivie par le hacker a été mis en ligne sur Pastebin.
C’est une affaire qui avait fait beaucoup de bruit (...)
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A brief history of governments hacking human rights organizations - 12 janvier 2016
We always knew that governments and military forces spied on each other. But over the last five years or more, we’ve seen them spying on NGOs, journalists and human rights workers, too.
The world first became aware of states hacking "civilian" targets in 2010, when Google revealed it had detected an intrusion by (...)
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Quand les gouvernements piratent les ONG - 11 janvier 2016
Nous avons toujours su que les gouvernements et les forces militaires s’espionnaient mutuellement. Mais depuis cinq ans environ, nous les avons vus se mettre à espionner les ONG, les journalistes et les défenseurs des droits humains. Par Morgan Marquis-Boire, conseiller par intérim auprès du Conseil Technologie et (...)
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Hacking Team hacked : firm sold spying tools to repressive regimes, documents claim - 6 juillet 2015
The cybersecurity firm Hacking Team appears to have itself been the victim of a hack, with documents that purport to show it sold software to repressive regimes being posted to the company’s own Twitter feed.
The Italy-based company offers security services to law enforcement and national security organisations. (...)
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Ethiopia expands surveillance capacity with German tech via Lebanon - 23 mars 2015
German surveillance technology company Trovicor played a central role in expanding the Ethiopian government’s communications surveillance capacities, according to a joint investigation by Privacy International and netzpolitik.org.
The company, formerly part of Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), provided equipment to (...)
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Will new government in Indonesia bring about surveillance reforms ? - 4 février 2015
Late last year, the newly-elected government of Indonesia began to take steps which are almost unheard of today : reforming government communications surveillance powers.
The much-needed development, on the back of the victory of President Joko Widodo, comes at a critical moment in the country’s history as the (...)
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A Spy in the Machine - 21 janvier 2015
How a brutal government used cutting-edge spyware to hijack one activist’s life
In November 2005, during the dead of night, five black cars pulled up in front of the home of Moosa Abd-Ali Ali. The doors opened, and a group of men stepped out. They could’ve been officers, or maybe they were just hired muscle "” such (...)
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Un programme pour savoir si votre ordinateur est espionné - 20 novembre 2014
Imaginez que vous n’êtes jamais seul. Que quelqu’un vous regarde par-dessus votre épaule, enregistre tous les mouvements sur votre ordinateur ; lit et écoute toutes vos conversations sur skype, utilise le microphone et la caméra de votre téléphone portable. Tout cela à votre insu. C’est ce qui arrive à des milliers de (...)
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Spyware exports will need a licence under new EU rules - 6 novembre 2014
"˜Intrusion software’ joins nuclear reactors and rocket fuel on the EU’s list of technologies that may have military applications
Companies which make spyware will have to apply for permission to export the software once new EU regulations come into effect in late December.
Officially referred to as "intrusion (...)
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How Bahrain spies on British soil - 5 novembre 2014
The Bahraini government has been using sophisticated malware"”complete with technical support from its manufacturer"”to remotely conduct surveillance operations on its political dissidents living in the UK.
In 2012, Citizen Lab, a think-tank operating out of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of (...)
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Bahraini government, with help from FinFisher, tracks activists living in UK - 15 octobre 2014
Jaafar Al Hasabi, Mohammed Moosa Abd-Ali Ali, and Saeed Al-Shehabi each fled Bahrain for the United Kingdom with one goal : to be safe.
These men, activists in the pro-democracy movement in Bahrain, were variously subject to torture, arbitrary detention, harassment, and psychological trauma in their home country. (...)
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UK police to investigate alleged Bahraini hacking of exiles’ computers - 13 octobre 2014
Rights group Privacy International files complaint that officials illegally monitored devices of pro-democracy trio in UK
The police National Cyber Crime Unit has been asked to investigate claims that computers and mobile phones used by exiled Bahraini pro-democracy activists living in the UK are under illegal (...)
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SpyFiles 4 - 17 septembre 2014
Today, 15 September 2014, WikiLeaks releases previously unseen copies of weaponised German surveillance malware used by intelligence agencies around the world to spy on journalists, political dissidents and others.
FinFisher (formerly part of the UK based Gamma Group International until late 2013) is a German (...)
