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Supreme Court declines to block WhatsApp lawsuit over NSO phone hacking | TechCrunch

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Supreme Court declines to block WhatsApp lawsuit over NSO phone hacking by Carly PageCarly Page (techcrunch.com)

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to block a lawsuit brought by WhatsApp challenging the alleged mass phone hacking by Israeli spyware maker NSO Group. Meta-owned WhatsApp first filed a suit against NSO Group in 2019 claiming the spyware maker exploited an audio-calling vulnerability in WhatsApp to stealthily deliver its Pegasus phone spyware onto users’ […]

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to block a lawsuit brought by WhatsApp challenging the alleged mass phone hacking by Israeli spyware maker NSO Group.Meta-owned WhatsApp first filed a suit against NSO Group in 2019 claiming the spyware maker exploited an audio-calling vulnerability in WhatsApp to stealthily deliver its Pegasus phone spyware onto users’ devices.…

Jair Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazil’s presidential palace and supreme court | Brazil | The Guardian

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Jair Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazil’s presidential palace and supreme court by Tom Phillips (The Guardian)

…thousands of pro-Bolsonaro extremists have refused to accept Lula’s narrow victory in October’s election, spending recent weeks camping outside army bases across the country and calling for a military coup.

Hundreds of hardcore supporters of Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, have stormed the country’s congress, presidential palace and supreme court in a stunning security breach that was immediately compared to the 6 January invasion of the US Capitol by followers of Donald Trump in 2021.“What we are witnessing is a terrorist attack,” the news anchor…

LastPass says hackers stole customers’ password vaults | TechCrunch

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LastPass says hackers stole customers’ password vaults by Zack WhittakerZack Whittaker (techcrunch.com)

Password manager giant LastPass has confirmed that cybercriminals stole its customers’ encrypted password vaults, which store its customers’ passwords and other secrets, in a data breach earlier this year. In an updated blog post on its disclosure, LastPass CEO Karim Toubba said the intruders took a copy of a backup of customer vault data by […]

In a rare shituation (not a typo) like this — which we spelled out in our parsing of LastPass’s data breach notice — if a bad actor has access to customers’ encrypted password vaults, “all they would need is a victim’s master password.” An exposed or compromised password vault is only as strong as the…

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