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China’s Olympics App for Athletes Has Security Flaws, Study Says

In preparation for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Japan worked to develop a contact tracing app that would track foreign visitors, but concerns quickly mounted over bugs in the software and whether all visitors would own smartphones on which to install the app. The Citizen Lab report said MY2022 failed to confirm a unique encryption signature […]

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Apple Sues Israeli Spyware Maker NSO Group

An opening for Apple’s lawsuit emerged in March, after NSO’s Pegasus spyware was discovered on the iPhone of a Saudi activist. Citizen Lab discovered that the spyware had infected the iPhone without so much as a click. The spyware could invisibly infect iPhones, Mac computers and Apple Watches, then siphon their data back to government […]

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