Facebook is seeking to have NSO barred from accessing or attempting to access WhatsApp and Facebook’s services after hacking spree that targeted journalists, diplomats, activists and others
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The US, UK, and Australia (3 Five Eyes) are asking @facebook to delay message encryption. They’re using child sex exploitation as a way to highlight concerns encrypted comms can hamper law enforcement.
Details on latest encryption battle w @CyberScoopNews
Brief an Mark Zuckerberg – US-Behörden gegen Facebook-Verschlüsselung
Allein 2018 meldete Facebook fast 17 Millionen Fälle möglichen Kindesmissbrauchs, mit der geplanten Ausweitung der Verschlüsselung wären schätzungsweise rund zwölf Millionen Fälle davon aber wohl nicht bemerkt worden, heißt es in dem Brief nach Angaben des US-Heimatschutzministeriums.
Attorney General Bill Barr Will Ask Zuckerberg To Halt Plans For End-To-End Encryption Across Facebook’s Apps
Attorney General Bill Barr, along with officials from the United Kingdom and Australia, is set to publish an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking the company to delay plans for end-to-end encryption across its messaging services until it can guarantee the added privacy does not reduce public safety.
A draft of the letter, dated Oct. 4, is set to be released alongside the announcement of a new data-sharing agreement between law enforcement in the US and the UK; it was obtained by BuzzFeed News ahead of its publication.
2.5 billion people use at least one of Facebook’s apps
(25.07.2018)
Facebook today for the first time announced that in June, 2.5 billion people used at least one of its apps: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or Messenger. That’s a helpful number, because it counts real people, rather than accounts, since people can have multiple accounts on a single app.
Calls for backdoor access to WhatsApp as Five Eyes nations meet
(30.09.2019)
British, American and other intelligence agencies from English-speaking countries have concluded a two-day meeting in London amid calls for spies and police officers to be given special, backdoor access to WhatsApp and other encrypted communications.
The meeting of the “Five Eyes” nations – the UK, US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand – was hosted by new home secretary, Priti Patel, in an effort to coordinate efforts to combat terrorism and child abuse.
Secretive Israeli firm behind WhatsApp spyware hack is sued by Amnesty International over ’surveillance of its staff‘
– Amnesty International have filed a lawsuit in Israel following the WhatsApp hack
– Amnesty have accused NSO of not giving due diligence in selling their product
– This week WhatsApp said NSO’s spyware software was used in a security breach
– WhatsApp said the attack may have been launched against human rights groups
Israel: Amnesty International engages in legal action to stop NSO Group’s web of surveillance
(13.05.2019)
Amnesty International is supporting a legal action to take the Israeli Ministry of Defence (MoD) to court, to demand that it revokes the export license of NSO Group, an Israeli company whose spyware products have been used in chilling attacks on human rights defenders around the world.
In a petition to be filed tomorrow at the District Court of Tel Aviv, approximately 30 members and supporters of Amnesty International Israel and others from the human rights community set out how the MoD has put human rights at risk by allowing NSO to continue exporting its products.
WhatsApp Rushes to Fix Security Flaw Exposed in Hacking of Lawyer’s Phone
An Israeli firm accused of supplying tools for spying on human-rights activists and journalists now faces claims that its technology can use a security hole in WhatsApp, the messaging app used by 1.5 billion people, to break into the digital communications of iPhone and Android phone users.
Security researchers said they had found so-called spyware — designed to take advantage of the WhatsApp flaw — that bears the characteristics of technology from the company, the NSO Group.
Spionage-Malware dringt in WhatsApp ein – alle sollen patchen!
Unabhängig davon, ob ein Anruf angenommen wird oder nicht, kann allein schon mit dem Versuch eines Verbindungsaufbaus der Exploit-Code übermittelt werden, so dass sich die Malware installieren lässt.
Eine Schad-Software, die diesen Bug bereits aktiv ausnutzt, ist ein Staatstrojaner namens Pegasus. Dieser wird von der israelischen Firma NSO Group entwickelt und an verschiedene staatliche Behörden lizenziert.
WhatsApp Has Exposed Phones To Israeli Spyware — Update Your Apps Now
WhatsApp told the Financial Times, which broke the story, that „the attack has all the hallmarks of a private company known to work with governments to deliver spyware that reportedly takes over the functions of mobile phone operating systems. We have briefed a number of human rights organizations to share the information we can, and to work with them to notify civil society.“
Massive WhatsApp Attacks affects 1,500,000,000 users
On Monday, Amnesty International said it was backing legal action against the Israeli Ministry of Defence demanding that it revokes NSO Group’s export licence. Danna Ingleton, deputy director of Amnesty Tech, said: ‘NSO Group sells its products to governments who are known for outrageous human rights abuses, giving them the tools to track activists and critics.’
Spain elections: WhatsApp suspends left-wing party Podemos’s communication channel days before vote
(25.04.2019)
Podemos had been using a WhatsApp channel with tens of thousands of supporters in to deliver campaign messages ahead of the 28 April contest, and planned to use it to get out the vote on election day – but the channel was taken offline without warning this week.
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp suffer global outage
Reports from DownDetector suggested that the problem was global, and peaked between 9:00 and 15:00 PDT for all three services, before tailing off, though there are still residual reports of problems with all three applications.
WhatsApp to clamp down on ’sinister‘ messages in India: IT minister
WhatsApp chief executive officer Chris Daniels gave the assurance to India’s information technology minister during a meeting in New Delhi.
A Spy in the Machine
(21.1.2015) He changed his password, alerted his friend, and stopped using Facebook Messenger — but the intrusions kept coming.
In another instance, Moosa noticed that someone posing as him solicited his female Facebook friends for sex — part of an effort, it seemed, to blackmail or perhaps defame him in Bahrain’s conservative media. Facebook was only the beginning. Unbeknownst to him, Moosa’s phone and computer had been infected with a highly sophisticated piece of spyware, built and sold in secret. The implant effectively commandeered his digital existence, collecting everything he did or said online.
May, Macron und Merkel: Kriegskoalition gegen das World Wide Web
(14.6.2017) Eine aus unserer Sicht offensichtliche Taktik von Monopolen, Kriegslobby und ihren Regierungen ist es seit Jahren, alle relevanten Diskussions- und / oder meinungsbildenden Plattformen mit bezahlten Trollen bzw gesteuerten Kräften unter enormem Aufwand mit abscheulichen Inhalten zu fluten, um dann mit diesen als Alibi angerannt zu kommen und zu verlangen diese Plattformen nun kontrollieren zu müssen. Also eine sich selbst erzeugende Begründung.
Die Internet-Monopole wie Google, Twitter, Facebook – die nicht eins zu eins gleichzusetzen sind mit den bisherigen Monopolen und Realitätshändlern aus der etablierten Presse – sind die ersten Zielobjekte dieser Pläne.
Spionage-Pläne: EU will Zugriff auf WhatsApp erleichtern
Ermittler sollen künftig auch einfacher bei E-Mails mitlesen können.
Die EU-Kommission plant offenbar ein ähnliches „Sicherheitspaket“ wie die heimische Bundesregierung.
Innen- und Justizausschuss nicken „Sicherheitspaket“ ab
Damit wird ermöglicht, dass die Polizei Zugriff auf einen Großteil der Überwachungskameras im öffentlichen Raum bekommt. Auch Aufzeichnungen von „Section- Control“-Anlagen und modernen Kennzeichenüberwachungssystemen können ausgewertet werden.