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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 (...)
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With Israel’s encouragement, NSO sold spyware to UAE and other Gulf states - 26 août 2020
The Israeli spyware firm has signed contracts with Bahrain, Oman and Saudi Arabia. Despite its claims, NSO exercises little control over use of its software, which dictatorships can use to monitor dissidents
The Israeli firm NSO Group Technologies, whose software is used to hack into cellphones, has in the past (...)
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Foreign workers in the Gulf still can’t call home - 24 juillet 2020
Our story featured a Filipino administrator in a labor camp near Doha and found that because most free Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) apps such as WhatsApp and Skype, Facetime were blocked by authorities in Gulf countries like Qatar, Oman and United Arab Emirates, migrants were hardly able to communicate with (...)
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A pandemic of power grabs - Autocrats see opportunity in disaster | Leaders | The Economist - 25 avril 2020
The world is distracted and the public need saving. It is a strongman’s dream
ALL THE world’s attention is on covid-19. Perhaps it was a coincidence that China chose this moment to tighten its control around disputed reefs in the South China Sea, arrest the most prominent democrats in Hong Kong and tear a hole in (...)
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How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades - 11 février 2020
For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries.
For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.
The company, Crypto AG, got its first break with a contract to build (...)
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Middle East Dictators Buy Spy Tech From Company Linked to IBM and Google - 14 juillet 2019
It is the size of a small suitcase and can be placed discreetly in the back of a car. When the device is powered up, it begins secretly monitoring hundreds of cellphones in the vicinity, recording people’s private conversations and vacuuming up their text messages.
The device is one of several spy tools (...)
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HIDE AND SEEK Tracking NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware to Operations in 45 Countries - 23 septembre 2018
In this post, we develop new Internet scanning techniques to identify 45 countries in which operators of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware may be conducting operations.
1. Executive Summary
Israel-based "Cyber Warfare" vendor NSO Group produces and sells a mobile phone spyware suite called Pegasus. To monitor a (...)
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Amazon refuse que Signal se cache dans son trafic pour éviter la censure - 3 mai 2018
Amazon a averti Open Whisper Systems, l’organisation qui développe Signal, de bien respecter les conditions d’utilisation de son infrastructure dans le cloud. En effet, la société américaine a appris que Signal envisage de cacher son trafic pour esquiver la censure dans certains pays.
Il n’y a pas que Telegram qui (...)
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BAE ’secretly sold mass surveillance technology to repressive regimes’ - 15 juin 2017
Documents reveal official concerns that deal with countries including Saudi Arabia could put UK security in danger, says BBC
BAE, Britain’s biggest arms company, secretly sold mass surveillance technology to six Middle Eastern governments that have been criticised for repressing their citizens, the BBC has (...)
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L’Algérie a acquis une technologie de surveillance de masse qui permet d’espionner les emails et les téléphones - 15 juin 2017
L’Algérie a acquis une technologie de surveillance de masse qui permet d’espionner les emails et les téléphones
BAE Systems, groupe aéronautique et de défense britannique a procédé au cours des dernières années à la vente d’« outil de surveillance massive à des régimes répressifs », à travers l’une de ses firmes danoises, (...)
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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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Eight things we know so far from the Hacking Team hack - 12 juillet 2015
Here are eight things we have learned from this week’s hack of some 400GB of internal company material and correspondence from Italian surveillance company Hacking Team. If you don’t know who Hacking Team are, have a look at our briefing.
The Citizen Lab was right
The Citizen Lab, who in 2014 identified some 21 (...)
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La firme d’espionnage Hacking Team piratée ! 400 Go de données diffusées - 6 juillet 2015
Considérée par Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) comme l’une des "cinq entreprises ennemies d’internet", pour sa fourniture de spywares et de malwares destinés à espionner la population, l’entreprise italienne Hacking Team a été piratée, et 400 Go de données internes sont désormais en ligne. Y compris des données très (...)
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Swiss Government forced to reveal destinations, cost of surveillance exports - 15 janvier 2015
In an enormous breakthrough for those seeking transparency and accountability to the shadowy surveillance industry, the Swiss Government has been forced to publish the list of export licenses for surveillance technologies and other equipment, including details of their cost and destination.
The decision by the (...)
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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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Des sociétés allemandes vendent sans licence des technologies de surveillance à des régimes ennemis des droits humains - 7 septembre 2014
Du Mexique au Mozambique et ailleurs, les preuves abondent aujourd’hui du recours par les gouvernements de toute la planète aux technologies de surveillance de masse comme FinFisher pour espionner leurs concitoyens. Cela a amené les chercheurs et défenseurs des droits comme à nous à étudier la source : qui fabrique ces (...)
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Following the money : How States are funding surveillance technologies - 26 mars 2014
Surveillance companies selling mass and intrusive spy technologies to human rights-abusing governments often are benefitting from the financial and institutional support from their home government, revealing a more closely-linked relationship between the sector and the State than previously believed.
Recent (...)
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Exploiting privacy : Surveillance companies pushing zero-day exploits - 10 mars 2014
Private surveillance companies selling some of the most intrusive surveillance systems available today are in the business of purchasing security vulnerabilities of widely-used software, and bundling it together with their own intrusion products to provide their customers unprecedented access to a target’s computer (...)
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Did Hacking Team receive Italian public funding ? - 3 mars 2014
Only a few days after it was reported that intrusive surveillance technology developed and sold by Italian surveillance company Hacking Team was found in some of the most repressive countries in the world, Privacy International has uncovered evidence which suggests the company has received over €1 million in public (...)
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Logiciels espions exportés depuis la Suisse - 26 septembre 2013
Des entreprises actives dans la cyber-surveillance passeraient par la Suisse pour vendre leurs logiciels espions à des pays qui ne respectent pas les droits de l’homme, selon Wikileaks.
La RTS publie une enquête sur le trafic de logiciels espion, après la publication de divers documents de Wikileaks laissant (...)
