“It was like Christmas”:A former NSA analyst who had gone on to work for a secret Emirati hacking program told Reuters of the excitement when Karma was introduced to their operation in 2016. The sophisticated tool could remotely grant access to iPhones simply by uploading phone numbers or email accounts into an automated targeting system. Read Reuters’ deep dive into how Karma helped the cyber-mercenaries harvest information on hundreds of prominent targets, including a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
The fight to control Venezuela,which has the world’s largest oil reserves, has intensified with new U.S. sanctions and legal moves that may bring the arrest of opposition leader and self-declared interim president Juan Guaido. “Donald Trump has without doubt given an order to kill me and has told the government of Colombia and the Colombian mafia to kill me,” Maduro said, reprising a constant accusation of his and Chavez’s over the years.
World stocks and the dollar steadied ahead of policy guidance from the U.S. Federal Reserve, with Apple results providing relief while market confidence that a no-deal Brexit can be avoided took a hit. Apple plans to cut the price of some of its flagship iPhones for only the second time in the device’s 12-year history, pegging its retail value to past prices in local currencies outside the United States instead of the rising U.S. dollar.
China’s Huawei has been excluded from a Czech tender to build a tax portal after the country’s cyber watchdog warned of possible security threats posed by the telecoms supplier, documents showed.
Foxconn is reconsidering plans to make advanced liquid crystal display panels at a $10 billion Wisconsin campus, and said it intends to hire mostly engineers and researchers rather than the manufacturing workforce the project originally promised.
