Tag: spying
Taiwanese general charged in spying for China
A retired general and a senior Taiwanese officer were charged Friday, June 24 for their participation in the development of a network of spies for the benefit of China, announced…
Tesla banned by the German police for spying via its Sentinel mode?
3 Tesla Sentinel mode banned by German police? Berlin’s police chief of security reportedly tried to ban Tesla vehicles from driving near police stations, citing a data security threat. Tesla…
Spying on François Ruffin: the agreement between LVMH and the prosecution validated
Published on 05/31/2022 at 2:16 p.m. Photo credit © Reuters PARIS (Reuters)…
Spying on François Ruffin: the agreement between LVMH and the prosecution validated, the elected official seizes the ECHR
(Updated with referral to the European Court of Human Rights) PARIS, May 31 (Reuters) – The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed on Tuesday the validity of an agreement reached by…
Twitter fined 140 million euros for spying on its users by manipulating them
The US Department of Justice has fined 150 million dollars, or 140 million euros, for manipulating its users for advertising purposes. Indeed, from 2013 to 2019, the social network strongly…
Chinese hackers have been spying on the Russian military for months
A new attack targeting Russian infrastructure from China has been recorded by Checkpoint experts. The latter took the form of a phishing campaign aimed at two military research institutes. Since…
Pegasus was also spying on the Spanish Prime Minister
The smartphones of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, have been subject to “illegal” and “external” tapping using Israeli software Pegasus, the Spanish government…
If AirTags are spying on you, they will sound louder with this update
Noellie Mautaint April 30, 2022 at 2:30 p.m. 7 © Pierre Crochart for Clubic The trackers are enjoying great popularity today. Extremely efficient, they allow users to find objects that…
Android: a flaw in Qualcomm and Mediatek SoCs allows spying on millions of smartphones
Check Point computer security researchers have discovered three critical security flaws within the audio decoders of chips from Qualcomm and Mediatek. According to them, these vulnerabilities would allow an attacker…
iPhone: Apple’s anti-tracking does not prevent apps from spying on you
According to computer security researchers at the University of Oxford, Apple’s anti-tracking system has flaws that allow applications and large companies such as Meta or Google to continue to collect…
Apple: a whistleblower accuses the firm of spying on its employees under the guise of product tests
Ashley Gjøvik has decided to file a complaint against Apple with regulatory bodies around the world. The engineer fired last year, presumably for having made too many waves within the…
Denmark expels 15 Russian diplomats for spying, Danish minister says
Denmark will expel 15 Russian diplomats for spying, Denmark’s foreign minister announced on Tuesday, a day after Russian diplomats were expelled from France and Germany for similar reasons. Read alsoDeparture…