Citizen Lab

The Canadian government is prepared to support a U.S. effort to restrict the use of powerful commercial spyware that is used to surveil activists, journalists and dissidents, according to a White House document. While the two…

A new research report says federal cybersecurity legislation is so flawed it would allow authoritarian governments around the world to justify their own repressive laws. The report by Christopher Parsons of the University of Toronto’s…

BANGKOK: Dozens of Thai democracy activists were targeted by the controversial Israeli spyware known as Pegasus during the height of intense anti-government protests, according to an international digital rights group report. Massive…

STRASBOURG (FRANCE): The European Parliament on Thursday created a "committee of inquiry" to probe accusations over the use of Pegasus spyware by governments in the bloc, notably in Hungary and Poland. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to…

Cutting-edge technology means even ‘the most skeptical, scrupulous targets can be spied on’ As a journalist working for the Arab news network Alaraby, Rania Dridi said she’s…

A smartphone app that's expected to be widely used by athletes and others attending next month's Winter Games in Beijing has glaring security problems that could…

Poland's most powerful politician has acknowledged that the country bought advanced spyware from the Israeli surveillance software maker NSO Group, but denied that it was being used to target his political opponents.Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the…

On Monday, Apple supplied a critical security update fixing the flaw, but the vulnerability had been used in attacks by Israel’s NSO Group, according to Citizen Lab. Citizen Lab is an academic research group that investigates…

Apple released a critical software patch to fix a security vulnerability that researchers said could allow hackers to directly infect iPhones and other Apple devices without any user action. Researchers at the University of…