There is a solution for the large-scale hack that affected some 1500 companies worldwide at the beginning of this month. The American company Kaseya, which supplies ICT management software and where the hack started, has a digital decryption key to unlock the computer systems. Kaseya lets that know without mentioning how exactly it came to…
The police have arrested a 24-year-old man from Arnhem who is suspected of having developed software for phishing panels. With phishing panels, websites can be set up with which criminals try to get people to click on a fake (payment) link. That link leads to a fake banking site where the criminals can see the…
A malfunction at an American tech company has shut down a large number of websites worldwide for about an hour. In the Netherlands, this involved the websites and sometimes apps of banks, newspapers and delivery services, among others. The sites of Rabobank, ING and ABN-Amro, NS, Albert Heijn, Funda, Trouw, AD and Nu.nl, among others,…
The California board is suing Activision Blizzard for discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace. That reports The New York Times. A regulator spent two years investigating the publisher of games, which include well-known games such as call of Duty and World of Warcraft spends. A female employee is said to have committed suicide after…
French prosecutors have opened a judicial investigation into allegations made to Moroccan intelligence services for the use of Pegasus spy software. Morocco is said to have bugged French journalists, France24 reports. Ten different charges are under investigation, including infringement of privacy, fraudulent access to personal electronic devices and criminal ties. Journalists from various French media…
The scandal surrounding the Pegasus spy software of the Israeli company NSO Group is expanding. The spy software, which the company says is intended to track down terrorists and criminals, may have also been used to hack into the phones of French head of state Emmanuel Macron and former prime minister Edouard Philippe. King Mohammed…
“The NSO Group says it sells technology in the fight against terror and organized crime,” says Marietje Schaake. As a former D66 MEP, now associated with Stanford, she has been involved in the trade in espionage software for years. “But it’s clear that they also target activists, journalists and others. They pretend to sell software…
The mobile phones of possibly thousands of journalists, human rights activists, politicians and officials around the world are said to have been hacked with Israeli-made spy software. While that news does not come as a total surprise in Israel, there are questions in the country about the involvement of government and authorities. International media, including…
Software from the Israeli company NSO Group is used to hack journalists, human rights activists and lawyers worldwide. Sixteen international media outlets, including the British newspaper The Guardian, The Washington Post, Le Monde and international news agencies, report this on the basis of leaked documents. The documents with phone numbers of 50,000 victims of hacks…
Due to a major leak at a company that takes corona tests, it was possible for anyone to get fake travel or admission tickets in the CoronaCheck app and to manipulate data. The company works for Testenvoorjereis.nl, which was created by the government. After RTL Nieuws discovered the leak, the Ministry of Health, Welfare and…