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Spanish judge shelves investigation of Pegasus use for attacks on PM Sanchez, ministers

The judge in charge of the investigation assured that the Israeli authorities don't provide sufficient information to determine whether the cyberattacks were carried out using the Pegasus software.

 An illustrative image of the NSO Group logo on a smartphone.
 An illustrative image of the NSO Group logo on a smartphone.

NSO group names David Friedman chairman amid efforts to overcome US blacklist

 An illustrative image of the NSO Group logo on a smartphone.

In US, spyware has consequences: Pegasus to pay Meta punitive damages - opinion

 An illustrative image of the NSO Group logo on a smartphone.

Israeli spyware firm NSO to pay Meta $168m. in damages for hijacking WhatsApp servers


My Word: Pegasus, the police and Trojan horses

Apart from asking why the police would undertake such an operation, I wondered who leaked the information to the paper, why and why now?

 THE HEAD of a ‘Cyber Horse,’ made from discarded electronic bits, is displayed near the entrance to the Cyber Week conference at Tel Aviv University in July 2021.

NSO scandal is symptom of rot in Israeli police culture - opinion

Culture is what is really at the heart of the problem with Israel’s police force.

 BORDER POLICE patrol at the Western Wall.

David Draiman on the move from heavy metal to the pro-Israel battlefield

The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Yaakov Katz and Lahav Harkov.

  David Draiman of Disturbed performs at SiriusXM Presents Disturbed Live From The Vic Theatre In Chicago on October 10, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois.

Israel Police needs American Revolution

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Like AT&T 40 years ago, Israel Police should be broken up into smaller, specialized agencies, regardless of the smartphone-phishing scandal that shook the country this week.

 PUBLIC SECURITY MINISTER Omer Bar Lev, Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai (center) and head of the Northern Command Police District Shimon Lavie attend a ceremony in Nazareth in November.

Are we in Tel Aviv or Pyongyang?

Illegal police use of NSO spyware, if true, would constitute the gravest assault on civil liberties and fundamental human rights in Israel's modern history.

 WHEN TOO much unchecked power is vested in the hands of faceless bureaucrats, even the strongest of democracies can slide toward oblivion.

NSO threatens Calcalist with defamation suit

NSO has threated Calcalist with a defamation lawsuit for its report alleging the cyber attack firm offers clients an option to delete the logos from its cyberattacks on others’ cell phones.

 A man walks past the logo of Israeli cyber firm NSO Group at one of its branches in the Arava Desert, southern Israel July 22, 2021

Ex-police chief Alsheich: Pegasus spying ‘disconnected from reality’

Roni Alsheich was police chief from 2015-2018 and is viewed as having heavily increased the power of the police cyber unit.

Police commissioner Roni Alsheich salutes during a ceremony

Police cannot be allowed to use anti-terror tools against suspects - opinion

The debate as to how to define the Pegasus software in legislation and when it may or may not be used misses the point entirely.

 FORMER ISRAELI police commissioner Roni Alsheich during a visit to the Western Wall in 2016. It was during Alsheich’s tenure that spyware became increasingly used by the police

Who is profiting off the NSO Pegasus spyware affair?

The NSO affair has shaken up public opinion and the political system, but there are also big gainers.

An aerial view shows the logo of Israeli cyber firm NSO Group at one of its branches in the Arava Desert, southern Israel, July 22, 2021.

Why have state probes become so popular in Bennett's government? - analysis

In a government that has a consensus about seeking punishments for its predecessors and not about what should be accomplished now, state commissions are a useful tool.

 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the Knesset plenum, February 7, 2022.