Edward Snowden, by his own account, grew up as a “shape-shifter.” His father worked for the Coast Guard, his mother for the Maryland state courts. But his parents’ appearances in Snowden’s new memoir, Permanent Record, are fleeting and superficial. The more enduring influences on his life—his sociocultural parental units, as it were—were the civil service...
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Washington Post’s New Columnist Consults for NSO Spyware Firm That Helps Saudi Arabia Surveil Journalists
This Washington Post’s newest columnist, Juliette Kayyem, has a problem. “The NSO Group’s Pegasus technology has been used by governments to track civil society, journalists, political dissidents, and others across the world,” the UN’s Kaye said in the letter, which specifically noted the allegations that Pegasus was used to target Khashoggi. “How will NSO Group...
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Czech Authorities Bust Russian Spy Network
The network was financed from Russia and the Russian embassy in Prague and was to attack targets in Czechia and its foreign partners through a network of servers, Koudelka said at a security conference in the Chamber of Deputies. “The network was completely broken up and decimated thanks to the NCOZ’s excellent work. The investigation...
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Russian Hackers Disguised Themselves as Iranian Hackers
Such are the ways of the Russian hackers known as the Turla group. So when you read allegations of Iranians seeking to interfere in the U.S. election, real living Iranians may not be involved. From the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Both UK and US intelligence agencies have accused the Turla group, allegedly based...