Brian Barrett
Security
09.18.2021 09:00 AM
Security News This Week: Former US Intelligence Operatives Admit They Hacked for UAE
Plus: Remote learning spyware, an AT&T bribery scandal, and more of the week's top security news.
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The Justice Department asserted that three former intelligence officials had hacked US targets on behalf of a foreign government.Photograph: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg/Getty Images
This week started with Apple, Microsoft, and Google all patching a bunch of zero-day vulnerabilities, which means that you hopefully set aside a little time on Tuesday to update all of your devices. If not? Go ahead and do it now. We'll wait!
OK, welcome back. At the end of the week, Apple and Google both removed an opposition voting app from their app stores in Russia at the request of the Kremlin. As far as precedents go, it's not great, as authoritarian regimes exert increasing tech giants who are too entrenched to leave their markets in protest. Russia in particular has been testing the limits, but India and China aren't far behind.
A new app available in Iran helps people fight back against that sort of censorship by letting people encrypt messages even during an internet blackout. Called Nahoft, the app can turn messages into a random jumble of Farsi, or even embed them in an image, to avoid detection by the Iranian regime.
You can now ditch the password on your Microsoft account. Zero trust is the most...
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