A recent investigation by Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti in The New York Times Magazine opened the curtains into the complex, high-stakes world surrounding commercially available smartphone spyware. Zeroing in on NSO Group’s Pegasus product, the reporters detailed the powerful incentives at play in the proliferation of this spyware.
The powerful incentives for developing smartphone spyware
Topics: Mobile Espionage, spyware
Topics: Mobile Security, spyware, Trusted Hardware
Lack of emphasis on secure teleworking is a national security risk.
Topics: Mobile Security, Smartphone Hacking, Smartphone Vulnerabilities, spyware
A quick update on 2019 mobile predictions made in January.
So far this year, the surreptitious capture of audio and visual data via smartphone cameras and microphones has negatively impacted the world’s richest person and a beloved trillion-dollar company. It’s safe to say that awareness of this issue has reached the mainstream, increasingly forcing individuals, enterprises and product makers to change how they operate. To see how the trajectory of smartphone surveillance has changed even in the last several months, I think it would be helpful to look back at my 2019 predictions as a starting point.
Topics: Mobile Security, Smartphone Hacking, Smartphone Vulnerabilities, Smartphone Security, Corporate Espionage, spyware
In the last 12 months, the threat of compromised smartphone cameras and microphones has taken on bigger real estate in the public consciousness, transforming from a largely abstract fear into a real, widespread and potentially devastating problem. The bad news is that this problem will get worse before it gets better. The good news is that security-centric organizations are looking for ways to proactively defend against this threat. So what will the next 12 months hold in store? Below, I’ve outlined six mobile security predictions for the coming year.
Topics: Mobile Security, Privoro, Smartphone Vulnerabilities, Smartphone Security, spyware, SafeCase, Data in Vicinity, Smartphone Anti-Surveillance
We started Privoro in 2013 not merely as a company, but as a philosophy: that security and privacy need not be casualties of our hyper-connected, sensor-driven, mobile-first world. That we should be able to trust and control our electronic devices. That our information is ours alone, and we should be able to control how it is accessed and shared.
Topics: Mobile Security, Privoro, Smartphone Vulnerabilities, Data Privacy, Smartphone Security, spyware, SafeCase