Category: mohammad bin salman

UN calls for investigation into alleged Saudi hacking of Jeff Bezos

Post author By Randall
Post date January 22, 2020
Categories In Amazon, gear, Hack, Internet, jeff bezos, mohammad bin salman, mohammed bin salman, Saudi Arabia, Security, Tech, un, united nations, whatsapp

[ad_1] The team added that this was evidence of the problems with the unregulated sale and use of spyware for surveillance purposes. These tools should be governed by “the most rigorous control” to prevent abuse, and that there should be a “moratorium” on selling and transferring the technology. Saudi Arabia has called the WhatsApp hack […]

Guardian: Saudi prince’s account used to hack Jeff Bezos via WhatsApp

Post author By Randall
Post date January 21, 2020
Categories In Amazon, breach, business, data breach, gear, Hack, jeff bezos, malware, mbs, Mobile, mohammad bin salman, Saudi Arabia, Security, Tech

[ad_1] The breach was apparently carried out in early May 2018, when Bezos received an unsolicited message from the crown prince — or an entity in control of his WhatsApp account. That message allegedly contained a video file that forensic analysis later concluded was highly likely to contain malware that allowed “large amounts of data” […]

Former Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudi Arabia

Post author By Randall
Post date November 6, 2019
Categories In gear, Internet, jamal khashoggi, mohammad bin salman, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Social Media, social network, social networking, spying, Tech, Twitter

[ad_1] A third man charged at the same time, Ahmed Almutairi, is also facing spying charges but didn’t work at Twitter. Instead, he allegedly served as a go-between for the Saudi government and the Twitter staffers. According to both clues in the indictment and a Washington Post source, the trio supposedly partnered with Bader Al […]