Phone hacking

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent a letter to President Biden and his Cabinet demanding wireless carriers’ cybersecurity standards be regulated as to not further exploit “lax security” in the United States’s phone networks. “I write to request that you address the grave threats posed by wireless carriers’ lax cybersecurity practices, which are not regulated, but should be,” Wyden wrote in the letter. “Surveillance companies and their authoritarian foreign government customers have exploited lax security in the U.S. and…

The widow of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi says in a lawsuit that surveillance software built by the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group was used to spy on her messages in the months leading up to her husband's death.In a civil suit filed Thursday in the Northern District of Virginia, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi said that NSO "intentionally targeted" her devices and "caused her immense harm, both through the tragic loss of her husband and through her own loss of safety, privacy, and autonomy." NSO initially said…

It’s hard to make the activities of Fox News and its Dominion Voting fiasco seem tame by comparison but another one of Rupert Murdoch’s media companies appears to have done it. How about a news operation that gets its scoops by hacking members of the royal family? Teenage Cybercrime Gang LAPSUS$ Strikes AgainTo explain, Prince Harry revealed this week that his brother, Prince William, received a pretty nice settlement after suing a number of British tabloids for hacking his cell phone back in the early aughts. Harry is…