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Pegasus case: SC postpones hearing to Friday on government's request

The matter was listed for hearing before a bench headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and comprising Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli on February 23

Israel's attorney general orders probe into NSO spyware claims

Israel's attorney general said he was launching an investigation into Israeli police's use of phone surveillance technology

Salvadoran journalists' phones hacked with Pegasus spyware, report finds

Salvadoran journalists' phones hacked with Pegasus spyware, report finds

Meta alerts 50K users on being targeted by 'surveillance-for-hire' entities

The global surveillance-for-hire industry targets people across the Internet to collect intelligence, manipulate them into revealing information and compromise their devices and accounts

Top headlines: India Inc faces stricter code, Meta cracks on surveillance

India Inc's corporate governance mettle will soon be put to the test with a stricter framework. More on top headlines this morning

No proposal for banning any group named 'NSO Group': MoS IT tells RS

The government on Friday said there is no proposal to ban any group named NSO Group' and it does not have any information on whether the US has blacklisted the group for providing Pegasus spyware

Apple files lawsuit against NSO Group, saying US citizens were targets

The iPhone maker said it is also seeking to ban NSO Group from using any Apple software, services or devices to prevent further abuse.

6 Palestinian rights activists hacked by NSO spyware, says report

Security researchers disclosed Monday that spyware from the notorious Israeli hacker-for-hire company NSO Group was detected on the cellphones of six Palestinian human rights activists

Top headlines: SC appoints Pegasus probe, Delhi summons Facebook execs

The Supreme Court ordered a panel of experts to investigate whether the government used the Pegasus spyware to surveil opposition leaders, activists, tycoons, judges and journalists.

Supreme Court to pronounce order judgment in Pegasus spyware case today

The apex court on September 13 had said it will pass an interim order in two-three days on pleas seeking an independent probe into the alleged Pegasus snooping row

More questions on Pegasus

India needs more transparent checks and balances

Pegasus row: Apple issues emergency software patch to fix spyware flaw

The researchers at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab said the flaw allowed spyware from the NSO Group to directly infect the iPhone of a Saudi activist.

UN nuclear agency, Iran reach deal over tools of surveillance

Tehran holds all recordings at its sites as negotiations over the US and Iran returning to the 2015 nuclear deal remain stalled in Vienna

Pegasus: SC grants more time to Centre, to hear pleas for probe on Sep 13

The Supreme Court Tuesday granted more time to the Centre to decide on filing a further response to a batch of pleas seeking an independent probe into the alleged snooping of certain people in India

In all fairness, we expect you to wait: SC on Bengal's Pegasus probe panel

Bengal govt on Wednesday submitted before the Supreme Court that the two-member commission of inquiry would not proceed till the top court hears the batch of petitions connected with snooping scandal

SC asks parties to avoid 'parallel debates' on social media over Pegasus

The Supreme Court Tuesday said there must be some discipline and they must have some faith in the system.

Pegasus scandal: Defence Ministry says 'no transaction' with NSO Group

In the midst of the Pegasus snooping controversy, the defence ministry on Monday said it did not have any transaction with the NSO Group, which sells the spyware. NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance software company, has been under increasing attack following allegations that its Pegasus software was used for surveillance of phones of people in several countries, including India. "Ministry of Defence has not had any transaction with NSO Group Technologies," Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt said while replying to a question in Rajya Sabha. He was asked whether the government had carried out any transaction with the NSO Group Technologies. The opposition parties have been targeting the central government over the snooping row and disrupting proceedings in Parliament since it met on July 19 for the Monsoon session. IT and Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnawhad had dismissed media reports on the use of Pegasus software to snoop on Indians, saying the allegations levelled

Pegasus: SC asks petitioners to serve pleas to Centre; next hearing on Tue

The top court said it was not going into the facts of each case and if some people claimed that their phones were intercepted then there is the Telegraph Act under which complaints can be filed

France investigates alleged spyware use against dissidents: Report

The prosec­utor's office said on Tuesday that it opened an investigation into a raft of pote­n­tial charges, inclu­ding viola­tion of privacy, illegal use of data and illegally selling spyware

Opposition parties disrupt Parliament, seek probe into Pegasus

Shouting out slogans agai­nst Modi's govt, the Opp­osition members said they wanted an independent probe into the complaints of spying and the resignation of HM Amit Shah