2022-06-17
So.. the security researcher folks at SentinelOne have found that after the email accts of Rona Wilson, Varavara Rao and Hany Babu were hacked, a new recovery email was added which included the full name of a Pune police official🤣 https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
Researchers connect an Indian police agency to hackers who planted evidence in 2018 on the PCs of human rights activists jailed on framed terrorism charges
2022-04-18
Ronan Farrow reports, using Citizen Lab analysis, that India was allegedly behind some of the Pegasus attacks on the UK Foreign Office. https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...
The Citizen Lab
Investigation finds 65+ people were targeted by Pegasus and Candiru, including Catalans, likely by Spanish authorities, and details a new iOS zero-click, HOMAGE
Key Findings — The Citizen Lab, in collaboration with Catalan civil society groups, has identified at least 65 individuals targeted …
2021-07-26
Some imp take-aways from WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart's interview with the #PegasusProject. 1) Govt officials were part of the 2019 NSO attack that WhatsApp fended off. So far, we've only had confirmation that activists/lawyers/journalists were a part of it. https://thewire.in/...
The Guardian
WhatsApp CEO says they had recorded an attack against 1,400 users over a two-week period in 2019, casting doubts on NSO's defense against Pegasus project claims
3) Finally, the WhatsApp CEO calls for more discussion: “NSO Group claims that a large number of governments are buying their software... Should they stop? Should there be a discussion about which governments were paying for this software? https://thewire.in/...
The Guardian
WhatsApp CEO says they had recorded an attack against 1,400 users over a two-week period in 2019, casting doubts on NSO's defense against Pegasus project claims
2) Our reporting broadly matches with what he saw in 2019. Range, scope etc. NSO has said a list of 50k numbers is too much. Cathcart says that in 2019, they saw attacks on 1,400 people over couple weeks. If you multiply that across years, that adds up. https://thewire.in/...
The Guardian
WhatsApp CEO says they had recorded an attack against 1,400 users over a two-week period in 2019, casting doubts on NSO's defense against Pegasus project claims
2021-07-20
Citizen Lab, the org that partially laid the groundwork for WhatsApp's lawsuit against NSO, did a peer review of Amnesty's methodology and found it to be sound. They had done 4 blind tests too and came to the same conclusions.👇 https://citizenlab.ca/...
TechCrunch
Amnesty International researchers published a toolkit to help anyone scan their iPhone and Android devices for evidence of compromise by NSO's Pegasus spyware
Over the weekend, an international consortium of news outlets reported that several authoritarian governments — including Mexico …
Citizen Lab, the org that partially laid the groundwork for WhatsApp's lawsuit against NSO, did a peer review of Amnesty's methodology and found it to be sound. They had done 4 blind tests too and came to the same conclusions.👇 https://citizenlab.ca/...
Washington Post
Investigation: Israel-based NSO Group's malware infected 23 phones belonging to government officials, reporters, execs, and activists, out of 67 checked
2020-05-13
Sadly, this important ruling will only apply to Americans who were employed by Accenture, Genpact etc, and not the hundreds of Indian contractors who also suffered the same mental trauma. https://www.theverge.com/...
The Verge
Facebook will pay $52M in a settlement covering 11,250 content moderators as compensation for mental health issues developed on the job
Current and former moderators will all be paid a minimum of $1,000 — In a landmark acknowledgment of the toll that content moderation takes on its workforce …
2020-05-07
Sudhir Krishnaswamy of National Law School-Bangalore is the only Indian appointed as part of the first 20 members to Facebook's new oversight board, which will take the final call on free speech issues. https://www.oversightboard.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Just Security
Facebook's efforts are laudable, but the Oversight Board does not end debates over online speech or legitimize content moderation choices by other platforms
With the Naming of Oversight Board Members, What Kind of Institution Will This Become? — With Facebook's unveiling of the first 20 …
Sudhir Krishnaswamy of National Law School-Bangalore is the only Indian appointed as part of the first 20 members to Facebook's new oversight board, which will take the final call on free speech issues. https://www.oversightboard.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Facebook's Oversight Board announces its first 20 members, out of a total of 40, who will oversee challenging content issues
“We want to make sure the content people … Steven Levy / Wired : Facebook Names the 20 People Who Can Overrule Mark Zuckerberg Chinmayi Arun / Just Security : The Facebook Oversigh...