Spyware articles
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Apple spots spyware threats in 92 countries
Apple detected new mercenary spyware attacks against its iPhones in new countries. The tech company had detected attacks in 58 countries since 2021 until this week, when it delivered notifications to an additional 92 countries. Apple suggested to the users who received these alerts to their iMessage and email accounts that they update their phones […]
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‘Unapologetically loud’: How student journalists fought a Kansas district over spyware and won
By Sherman smith, Kansas Reflector This article was originally published on Kansas Reflector. When Lawrence Public Schools deployed spyware last fall, district officials said it would help them respond to a growing mental health crisis by monitoring students’ correspondence, photos, classwork and files. But student journalists were alarmed by the First Amendment problems inherent with the district’s implementation of the surveillance program, made by Gaggle. As district officials dismissed...