to be installed on mobile devices a british newspapers reporting that and israeli security firm n.s.o. group developed that surveillance software the group the report saying a u.k. attorney evolved in a lawsuit against the n.s.o. group was among the selected targets whatsapp is urging its 1500000000 users to install the latest update as a precaution immediately. ok so what do you need to do let's talk about that and much else with max he's a tech expert and investigative journalist thanks for coming in max can you tell us about 1st of all the whole group which apparently breached whatsapp security systems well and it's oh group is a company that operates on a quite opaque gray market little is known about but they are one of the largest players in the business of developing surveillance tools or hacking tools and they're used in israel in tel aviv they're an israeli company allegedly $500.00 people and these tools that they develop they can sell for hundreds and thousands of dollars ok and who they have been selling them to well there is also little known about that and they wouldn't be the

it's one that dog the n.s.o. group for years in fact because on the one hand they say that they they sell a product and what their customers do with that product is between the customers and their own national authority on the other hand and as a group has also said that they investigate allegations of wrongdoing and they suspend customers who behave badly we don't yet fully understand just how much of an insight n.s.o. has into its own customer's behavior and that's a question i hope will see answered sometimes i think that in the n.s.o. group's defense i would be very surprised if it least some of their products weren't being used to genuinely go after criminals and terrorists and and others of that is that being said if you sell to countries like saudi arabia or other authoritarian governments then i would hope that a company in that position would ask themselves some very serious questions about how their products are really going to be used and also monitor how their products are going to be used that's not so dif

the n.s.o. group in today's will based on the evidence we have they are the worst of the worst in selling these burglary tools that are being actively currently used to violate the human rights of dissidents opposition figures activists who was targeted we're talking about these people that he's talking about or it's everyone well this is part of it now what what this attack at the moment seems to have happened is that certain people have been targeted now in particular the way it kind of transpired was a few days ago a u.k. based lawyer who noticed he could potentially be having his phone hacked so he did was he contacted a citizens group they looked into it and they said yeah correct it appears that this is happening and what happened was and this u.k. based lawyer also happens to be involved in a lawsuit against n.s.o. the firm that we were just talking about before because he's working with a group of mexican journalists government critics and also a saudi arabian dissident who have brought a civi

involved in a lawsuit against the n.s.o. group and she was defending mexican and saudi arabian and some. customers the clients who were targeted by previous to his office in this particular heck this lawyer was. was hacked but noticed that before they had could happen alerted citizen groups which then discovered the loophole another researcher from amnesty international was also hacked in this one ok so how big of a deal is this to. as a for what's app how bad this is look for the come. it does look pretty bad although this particular loophole is not something that targets the entire user base that is a high profile target to hack so i think the company is now scrambling to find out how many users are involved it looks like there are not too many users so involved because. this is not something that is going to spy out in the tire user base it is definitely something that is used against a single person ok so there are single targets and yet what's out there is telling everyone you know it's $1500000000.00 users to update the medi

on phones and other devices a national times newspaper reporting that the israeli security firm n.s.o. group developed the surveillance software whatsapp is urging its 1500000000 users to install the latest update immediately as a precaution. unofficial results in the philippines midterm vote point to a boost for president. as allies leave the tallies for all 12 contested seats in the senate the new majority could allow to tear day to bring back capital punishment as part of his controversy over war on drugs. u.s. president trump has met with prime minister victor were bought at the white house trump praised him as a friend of america and for quote being like me a little controversy old but doing a good job like trump or ben has espoused hard line anti migration rhetoric a top democrat criticize the president for embracing authoritarian figures. well staying in the u.s. a major california decision has come down a california jury has awarded more than $2000000000.00 to a couple who say monsanto's roundup weed killer caused their counselor it's the latest headache for the german company by all

something we're going to hear from the n.s.o. group in today's world based on the evidence we have they are the worst of the worst in selling these burglary tools that are being actively currently used to violate their human rights and this is the opposition figures activists. well you definitely didn't mince his words there are serious obviously one of those very fierce critics of what n.s.a. technology has been used for ok so what's one of the 1000000000 users that what they all talk to did well use what's up i hope i wasn't targeted but what we do know is and you mentioned it before. what's up of said actually the targets of the attack were high profile users so very specific people were targeted with this hack now what we do know is that a couple of days ago and u.k. based lawyer realized that something was open he alerted a citizen group who then looked into what was taking place which is what's up and then realized what was taking place now what's interesting about this is that this lawyer is actually involved in a lawsuit that h

it's one that dog the n.s.o. group for years in fact because on the one hand they say that they they sell a product and what their customers do with that product is between the customers and their own national authority on the other hand and as a group has also said that they investigate allegations of wrongdoing and they suspend customers who behave badly we don't yet fully understand just how much of an insight n.s.o. has into its own customer's behavior and that's a question i hope will see answered sometimes i think that in the n.s.o. groups defense i would be very surprised if it least some of their products weren't being used to genuinely go after criminals and terrorists and and others of that iraq that being said if you sell to countries like saudi arabia or other authoritarian governments then i would hope that a company in that position would ask themselves some very serious questions about how their products are really going to be used and also monitor how their products are going to be used that's not so di

it's one that dog the n.s.o. group for years in fact because on the one hand they say that they they sell a product and what their customers do with that product is between the customers and their own national authority on the other hand and as a group has also said that they investigate allegations of wrongdoing and they suspend customers who behave badly we don't yet fully understand just how much of an insight n.s.o. has into its own customer's behavior and that's a question i hope we'll see answered sometime soon i think that in the n.s.o. groups defense i would be very surprised if it least some of their products weren't being used to genuinely go after criminals and terrorists and and others of that is that being said if you sell to countries like saudi arabia or other authoritarian governments then i would hope that a company in that position would ask themselves some very serious questions about how their products are really going to be used and also monitor how their products are going to be used that's not so

the n.s.o. groupin today's will based on the evidence we have they are the worst of the worst in selling these burglary tools that are being actively currently used to violate the human rights of dissidents opposition figures activists who was targeted we're talking about these people that he's talking about or it's everyone well this is part of it now what what this attack at the moment seems to have happened is that certain people have been targeted now in particular the way it kind of transpired was a few days ago a u.k. based lawyer. who noticed he could potentially be having his phone hacked so what he did was he contacted a citizens group they looked into it and they said yeah correct it appears that this is happening and what happened was and this u.k. based lawyer also happens to be involved in a lawsuit against n.s.o. the firm that we were just talking about before and because he's working with a group of mexican journalists government critics and also a saudi arabian dissident who have broug

i think that in the n.s.o. group's defense i would be very surprised if it least some of their products were being used to genuinely go after criminals and terrorists and others of that iraq that being said if you sell to countries like saudi arabia or other authoritarian governments then i would hope that a company in that position would ask themselves some very serious questions about how their products are really going to be used and also monitor how their products are going to be used that's not so difficult in the cyprus in cyberspace so what you raise is a very good question if you sell to bad people i'm sure in some ways responsible for the bad outcomes. or i will leave it there for now thanks so much for. thousands of children in angola a risk of starvation due to severe droughts and as according to the united nations many are being treated for malnutrition how has this room for. these health workers trying to save the weak vulnerable and hungry it hasn't rained properly in months and some of these children are

attorney involved in a lawsuit against the n.s.o. group was among the targets whatsapp is urging its 1500000000 users to install the latest update as a precaution the company says it's referred the breach to the u.s. justice department and we can talk to a local she's a tech expert on the editor of vice germany's tech site motherboard she's with us now i said so tell us more about the group that's reported to be behind this cyber attack and so group right so is allegedly one of the largest developers of surveillance technology and spyware and they're based in israel they have around about $500.00 employees and their customers are governments and secret services around the world they've been known to work together with. the tarion states and they do not deploy the to sedate delap themselves they sell it on and usually with a memorandum that this is not to be used to choose or not to be used in anything other than to catch criminals in fact oh the governments that buy these tools have been known to use them against political rivals and even

phones and other devices the financial times newspaper reporting that the israeli security firm n.s.o. groupas developed the surveilled software whatsapp has emerged as 1500000000 users to install the latest update as a precaution. a blast in the western pakistani city of cueto has killed at least 4 policemen and wounded more than 10 others an improvised bomb rigged to a motorcycle apparently triggered that device on a police vehicle the pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility. representatives of the amazon's indigenous peoples have met with the french environment minister in paris french capitals the 1st stop on the group's 3 week tour across europe trying to raise funding for the protection of brazil's endangered amazon rainforest. is to sudan now where 5 protesters and an army major have been shot dead in the capital khartoum this comes just hours after protest leaders reached a breakthrough agreement with the ruling generals over a power structure for the country's political transition. protesters want to civilian led transition on monday they blocked roads in the capital after secu

rights group reported that pegasus and advanced cyber weapons sold by the israeli spy work company n.s.o. group likely allowed the saudi government to listen to calls between chris shogi and a saudi dissident because showed his killing was that abominable crime that has thus far gone unpunished c p j has found that in 9 out of 10 cases of murder journalists the killers are never brought to justice this impunity sense that empowering vestige to those seeking to use violence censor journalists the us record on press freedom is not perfect but has long been a leader in ensuring robust protections both at home and abroad unfortunately the current administration has not been a forceful advocate for press freedom to the contrary president donald trump has fought the deal a gentleman's the work of news organizations has failed to criticize repressive regimes and has praised leaders who crush the set. to counter this congress must step up its efforts we applaud pax past action and call on congress to ensure that the state department applies pressure on foreign governments to release imprisoned journali

hacking the comedian's phone and using it to spy on him it's the latest allegation linked to the n.s.o. group the israeli surveillance company's products have allegedly been used to talk it activists and journalists around the world. just sun is the executive director of the search organization arab sense of washington d.c. he says the latest revelations pattern. this is not an isolated case i think and recent weeks we have heard some new similar attempts at hacking telephones and spying on others this isn't. across the united states canada in europe particularly most recently in norway and it seems to be a pattern and unfortunately the publicity it received by the killing of. who was the victim of such hacking and spying before he was killed and mutilated. doesn't seem to have taught the people in charge of security and the right lesson i'm not sure it will make a big difference in terms of the larger picture but definitely in terms of specific cases i think people have to defend themselves i do not blame. those or you for doing that in an attempt to kind of protect himself better against su

kingdom of hacking the comedian's phone and using it to spy on him it's the latest allegation in the n.s.o. group israeli surveillance company whose products have allegedly been used to target activists and journalists around the world. or how little just son is the executive director of the research organization arab center washington d.c. he says the latest revelations full of a pattern. this is not an isolated case i think and recent weeks we have heard some new similar attempts at hacking telephones and spying on other this isn't. across the united states canada in europe particularly most recently in norway and it seems to be a pattern and unfortunately the publicity it received by the killing of. who was the victim of such hacking and spying before he was killed and mutilated. doesn't seem to have taught the people in charge of security and the right lesson i'm not sure it will make a big difference in terms of the larger picture but definitely in terms of specific cases i think people have to defend themselves i do not blame him at those are you for doing that in an attempt to kind of prot

neighbors and it's not just the saudis of course you have the shadowy israeli security from the n.s.o. group which we've just discovered recently was behind the spyware used to hack into what's up and which also sold spyware to the saudis which was allegedly used to spy on the late. absolutely and in this way i think it's really good that more light is being shed on it. i should also add that you know one of the most sensitive investigations that i was involved and in fact that was i think the most immediate reason why i think the threats as. well as my involvement with the jeff bezos hack and it also happened to be the prime suspects but you know when it comes to you you did a lot of reporting around the alleged blackmailing of amazon boss jeff bezos let me ask you this does it depress you that m.b.a.'s is not only gotten away with allegedly killing jamal khashoggi the cia believe with high confidence he was behind it but more than 7 months later he's still able to threaten people like yourself. the saudi dissident omar abilities in canada another person in the u.s. who is also to remain an

neighbors and it's not just the saudis of course you have the shadowy israeli security from the n.s.o. group which we've just discovered recently was behind the spyware used to hack into what's up and which also sold spyware to the saudis which was allegedly used to spy on the late. absolutely and in this relationship i think it's really good that more light is being shed on it. i should also add that you know one of the most sensitive investigations that i was involved and in fact that was. i think the most immediate reason i think the threats as. well as my involvement with jeff bezos hack and it's also happened to be the prime suspects but you know when it comes to you you did a lot of reporting around the alleged blackmailing of amazon boss jeff bezos let me ask you this does it depress you that m.b.a.'s is not only gotten away with allegedly killing jamal khashoggi the cia believe with high confidence he was behind it but more than 7 months later he's still able to threaten people like yourself. the saudi dissident omar abilities in canada another person in the u.s. who is asked to rema

neighbors and it's not just the saudis of course you have the shadowy israeli security firm the n.s.o. groupwhich we've just discovered recently was behind the spyware used to hack into what's up and which also sold spyware to the saudis which was allegedly used to spy on the late jamal khashoggi absolutely and in this relationship i think it's really good that more light is being shed on it. i should also add that you know one of the most sensitive investigations that i was involved and in fact that was i think the most immediate reason why i think the threats as. well as my involvement with the jeff bezos hack and it's so also happened to be the prime suspects but you know when it comes to you you did a lot of reporting around the alleged blackmailing of amazon boss jeff bezos let me ask you this does it depress you that m.b.a.'s is not only gotten away with allegedly killing jamal khashoggi the cia believe with high confidence he was behind it but more than 7 months later he's still able to threaten people like yourself. the saudi dissident omar of deliveries in canada another person in t