{"id":2347,"date":"2021-07-31T15:42:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T13:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/31\/time-to-clip-the-wings-of-nso-and-its-pegasus-spyware-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2021-07-31T15:42:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T13:42:37","slug":"time-to-clip-the-wings-of-nso-and-its-pegasus-spyware-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/31\/time-to-clip-the-wings-of-nso-and-its-pegasus-spyware-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to clip the wings of NSO and its Pegasus spyware | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now the reach of the Israeli firm\u2019s smartphone-hacking software has been revealed, the US and Apple may take action<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/series\/pegasus-project\">See all the Guardian\u2019s stories as part of the Pegasus project investigation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What\u2019s the most problematic tech company in the world? Facebook? Google? Palantir? Nope. It\u2019s a small, privately held Israeli company called NSO that most people have never heard of. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsogroup.com\/\">On its website<\/a>, it describes itself as \u201ca world leader in precision cyberintelligence solutions\u201d. Its software, sold only to \u201clicensed government intelligence and law-enforcement agencies\u201d, naturally, helps them to \u201clawfully address the most dangerous issues in today\u2019s world. NSO\u2019s technology has helped prevent terrorism, break up criminal operations, find missing people and assist search and rescue teams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So what is this magical stuff? It\u2019s called Pegasus and it is ultra-sophisticated spyware that covertly penetrates and compromises smartphones. It\u2019s particularly good with Apple phones, which is significant because these devices are generally more secure than Android ones. This is positively infuriating to Apple, which views protecting its users\u2019 privacy as one of its USPs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/jul\/31\/time-to-clip-the-wings-of-nso-and-its-pegasus-spyware\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/788acbea9d57666b0592c4140d3e4b94494d4f06\/0_93_2784_1670\/master\/2784.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=72b7ab31493bacaafe3565a585468052\" title=\"Time to clip the wings of NSO and its Pegasus spyware | John Naughton\" \/>Now the reach of the Israeli firm\u2019s smartphone-hacking software has been revealed, the US and Apple may take action<br \/>\nSee all the Guardian\u2019s stories as part of the Pegasus project investigation<br \/>\nWhat\u2019s the most problematic tech company in the world? Facebook? Google? Palantir? Nope. It\u2019s a small, privately held Israeli company called NSO that most people have never heard of. On its website, it describes itself as \u201ca world leader in precision cyberintelligence solutions\u201d. Its software, sold only to \u201clicensed government intelligence and law-enforcement agencies\u201d, naturally, helps them to \u201clawfully address the most dangerous issues in today\u2019s world. NSO\u2019s technology has helped prevent terrorism, break up criminal operations, find missing people and assist search and rescue teams.\u201d<br \/>\nSo what is this magical stuff? It\u2019s called Pegasus and it is ultra-sophisticated spyware that covertly penetrates and compromises smartphones. It\u2019s particularly good with Apple phones, which is significant because these devices are generally more secure than Android ones. This is positively infuriating to Apple, which views protecting its users\u2019 privacy as one of its USPs. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now the reach of the Israeli firm\u2019s smartphone-hacking software has been revealed, the US and Apple may take action See all the Guardian\u2019s stories as part of the Pegasus project investigation What\u2019s the most problematic tech company in the world? Facebook? Google? Palantir? Nope. It\u2019s a small, privately held Israeli company called NSO that most &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/31\/time-to-clip-the-wings-of-nso-and-its-pegasus-spyware-john-naughton\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time to clip the wings of NSO and its Pegasus spyware | John Naughton<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}