Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Monday, July 19th 2021. I'm Brian McCullough

today. The NSO group is back in the headlines and it's maybe the worst allegations of hacking for

higher yet. The US and NATO blamed China for the exchange server hacks. Does

iOS now split the market with Android at least in the US and is Tesla charging customers for hardware? the Do you remember that NSO group, the Israeli security company that allegedly sells the ability

to hack into phones, including iPhones of prominent people, especially people that various governments might want to keep track of.

Stories pop up about NGO group every six months or so.

And well, once again, get this this quoting the Washington Post.

Military grade spyware licensed by an Israeli firm to governments for

tracking terrorists and criminals was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, human rights activists, business executives, and two women close to murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Koshogi,

according to an investigation by the Washington Post and 16 media partners.

The phones appeared on a list of more than 50,000 numbers that are concentrated in countries

known to engage in surveillance of their citizens and also known to have been clients of the Israeli firm

NSO group a worldwide leader in the growing and largely unregulated private spyware industry the

investigation found the list does not identify who put the

numbers on it or why and it is unknown how many of the phones were targeted or

surveilled but forensic analysis of the 37 smartphones shows that many display a tight correlation between

timestamps associated with a number on the list and the initiation of surveillance in some cases

as brief as a few seconds.

Forbidden stories, a Paris-based journalism nonprofit

and Amnesty International, a human rights group,

had access to the list and shared it

with the news organizations, which did further research and analysis.

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