John Scott-Railton ☕

NEW: Polish prosecutors seize #Pegasus equipment used by past gov.

Win for transparency in 🇵🇱#Poland.

Nightmare for NSO Group.

Story [PL]: https://tvn24.pl/polska/prokuratorzy-zabezpieczyli-urzadzenia-systemu-pegasus-st7973218

Being so universally notorious that even scammers know about your spyware.

#pegasus #spyware #cybersecurity #infosec #malware

VIDEO: Satellites used to cancel community church's insurance policy.

Remember: data flows with surveillance potential ...will inevitably be mined for automated profit-maximizing.

Injustices, disparities & harms will follow.

#privacy #surveillance #satellite #insurance #cybersecurity #infosec

Where can I find current advanced university lectures / lecture series on arbitrary scientific and technical topics?

I'm finding these are really hard to surface on #YouTube.

#education #university #continuingeducation

So... the #FBI ran a Truman Show on this 🇨🇳spy for 8 years?

Wild.

#espionage #surveillance #china #spy #investigation #counterintelligence #intelligence #CIA #China

Your ignorance is their power.

Regular user: I want to feel safe and private.

Google: cool, anyways here's an AI that listens to your calls.

Microsoft: word, how about an AI that takes screenshots of everything you do?

#Google #AI #Microsoft #privacy #security #safety #cybersecurity #infosec

Even for cancer and transplant patients.

#cancer #transplantation #immunocompromised #health #healthcare #masks #northcarolina

AI-drafted police reports will absolutely result in mistakes enshrined as facts.

This will permanently impact peoples' lives & freedom.

Story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/04/23/axon-ai-police-reports-/?sh=7bdefd5b476b

#AI #artificialintelligence

BREAKING: US imposes visa restrictions on 13 mercenary spyware proliferators / immediate family.

First known application of policy rolled out in Feb.

A lot of shady players are surely having a little panic.

...wondering if their name is or will be on a list.

#spyware #pegasus #malware #mercenary #infosec #cybersecurity #hacking

NEW RESEARCH: most popular Chinese keyboard app (450 million monthly users!) transmits every key typed to #Tencent. . My

colleagues found vulnerable encryption means the uploaded keystrokes could also be intercepted by 3rd parties.

We did responsible disclosure.

The vulnerable encryption that could expose transmitted typing to third parties = fixed.

Sogou Keyboard users should update!

But they should also remain aware that everything you type still goes to the developer.

NEW: Jamal Khashoggi's wife Hanan Elatir sues #NSOGroup, maker of #Pegasus #spyware in US.

Alleges spyware was used to track Jamal before murder.

& NSO negligently sold to known #humanrights violators.

#cybersecurity #malware

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/15/khashoggi-nso-widow-lawsuit/

In the world Musk created, blue check accounts echoing him eclipsed the one reply that mattered.

Which is that this is just false.