Apple Sues Israeli Spyware Maker, Seeking to Block Its Access to iPhones
Apple accused NSO Group, the Israeli surveillance company, of “flagrant” violations of its software, as well as federal and state laws.
By Nicole Perlroth
Nicole Perlroth
Nicole Perlroth covers cybersecurity and digital espionage for The New York Times. She has covered Russian hacks of nuclear plants, airports, and elections, North Korea's cyberattacks against movie studios, banks and hospitals, Iranian attacks on oil companies, banks and the Trump campaign and hundreds of Chinese cyberattacks, including a months-long hack of The Times. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling book “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends,” about the global cyber arms race. The book, and several of her Times articles, have been optioned for television.
A Bay Area native, Ms. Perlroth is a guest lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a graduate of Princeton University and Stanford University.
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Alan Paller, a Mover on Cybersecurity Threat, Is Dead at 76
He made it his mission to find, recruit and develop the next generation of digital warriors to defend the nation against an onslaught of cyberattacks.
By Nicole Perlroth
Justice Dept. Brings New Charges in Ransomware Attacks
The department said it had charged a Russian national in one attack and recovered $6.1 million in ransom. It also arrested a Ukrainian man for another attack.
By Katie Benner and Nicole Perlroth
U.S. Blacklists Israeli Firm NSO Group Over Spyware
The ban is the strongest step an American president has taken to curb abuses in the global market for spyware.
By David E. Sanger, Nicole Perlroth, Ana Swanson and Ronen Bergman
A Rare Win in the Cat-and-Mouse Game of Ransomware
A team of private security sleuths, in their first public detailing of their efforts, discuss how they used cybercriminals’ mistakes to quietly help victims recover their data.
By Nicole Perlroth
Hackers lay claim to Donald Trump’s social app before its launch.
Hackers tied to the group Anonymous defaced a private version of the former president’s app, Truth Social, posting images of defecating pigs and explicative-laced rants.
By Nicole Perlroth
Trump Takes Advantage of Wall Street Fad to Bankroll New Venture
A merger with a so-called blank check company is poised to give the former president access to hundreds of millions of dollars.
By David Enrich, Matthew Goldstein and Shane Goldmacher
Gone in Minutes, Out for Hours: Outage Shakes Facebook
When apps used by billions of people worldwide blinked out, lives were disrupted, businesses were cut off from customers — and some Facebook employees were locked out of their offices.
By Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel
How to Fix Your iPhone’s Security Flaw
A guide to updating your phone's software after researchers found that a flaw had infected billions of Apple products.
By Nicole Perlroth
Apple Issues Emergency Security Updates to Close a Spyware Flaw
Researchers at Citizen Lab found that NSO Group, an Israeli spyware company, had infected Apple products without so much as a click.
By Nicole Perlroth
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