department of the spyware attacks, and this is the 1st case of s. so groups, pegasus tool being used to hack american official. now last week the u. s. congress department blacklisted s. so group and another israeli fir, mcandrew alleging the companies provide spyware to foreign governments intending to target journalist embassy workers activists and other back in november, apple filed a lawsuit against and a so group in its parents, company o s y technologies for targeting i phone users with pegasus spyware. so let's go ahead and dig deeper into this story as cybersecurity has been front center this year, with morgan wright, chief security advisor at no one and former senior advisor to the us state department, anti terrorism assistance program. now, morgan, i mean, it seems like this spyware, developed by and so group has been extremely controversial since that came on the feed. what do we need to know about pegasus and how it was used in this situation? so this peg us, the software is to zeros. it's uses 0 day exploits, entered, involved 0 touch infections. in fact, one of the ways they did this in this case base and a specially crafted mal

u. s. congress department is actually planning to add a chinese firms to its entities, blacklist. they say the move would be made over the allegations that the companies which include d, g, i, technologies were involved in the surveillance of weaker muslim minorities. what do we know about this so far? so what this actually means is that us investors are far from taking states and companies on the list which now comprise about 60 firms last year d, b, i has been put on this list for the very same reasons and that stopped it from buying us technology or component and at the time d, j, i said that it has done nothing to justify and would continue to sell product into the us where it has built up a large market. making responded to the saying that china was opposed to the us. the suppression of its companies, and we'll pay close attention to how the situation developed. however, if we look at the companies that are added onto this list, it includes image recognition, software megs, the supercomputer maker, dawning information technology, facial recognition technology, cybersecurity n

started and we lead the program with a little bit of good news as the united states congress department reports that the u. s. economy actually grew more in the 3rd quarter of this year than previously reported growth for the quarter actually hit 2.3 percent with consumer spending leading the way coupled with businesses, gaining more inventory than expected in the face of ongoing supply chain shortages . but it was still a significant slow down from the 1st half of the year where growth hits 6.7 percent in the 2nd quarter. it's also raising questions about whether the us will be able to hit the prediction of 7.3 percent growth from oxford economics. this quarter, as skyrocketing, inflation continues to take a toll and the economy. and what will the future of the world's largest economy actually look like? we have talked about how the pandemic has changed the workforce in this country, sending more than 3000000 americans early retirement prompting a record 4400000 americans to quit their jobs in september alone. as they found ways to be their own boss, and also leading many to find new ways to work from home,

u. s. u homeland security department is under fire after it was revealed that the agency had secretly obtained information on journalists, congress members, and possibly even its own staff using databases set up to track international terrorists associated press, whose reporter was one of those targeted is demanding answers where deeply concerned about this apparent abuse of power, this appears to be an example of journalists being targeted for simply doing their jobs, which is a violation of the 1st amendment. what we have in question is a secret border patrol unit called counter network division. and apparently it had very few rules, very few guidelines. it operated and well abided by and according to the report that has, well, that has made the headlines views to proudly some of the america's most sensitive databases to look into and to vet people. when i say people, i do not mean known criminals on poor people, charged with something or even people suspected of committing a federal crime. when i say that people, they were rather vetting journalists or world congressman or congress people or just angio workers. they were vetti

u. s. jolissa pushing back against government surveillance after it was revealed, the homeland security department secretly obtained information on reporters congress members. possibly even it's on staff by running database checks, normally wizard or suspected terrorists. the associated press, his reporter was one of those targeted is now demanding answers where deeply concerned about this apparent abusive power. this appears to be an example of journalists being targeted for simply doing their jobs, which is a violation of the 1st amendment. at the center of the uproar, a special unit inside customs and border protection called counter network division . it reportedly gather data on 20 journalists using sensitive databases. the revelation has prompted condemnation, not just from media workers, but also lawmakers if true, this abuse of government surveillance powers to target journalists, elected officials, and their staff is deeply disturbing if multiple government agencies were aware of this conduct and took no action to stop it. there needs to be serious consequences for every official involved and department of homeland security and the justice

congress is doing job openings in the u. s reached a near record in october, the labor department says employers posted 11 million open positionsing the record high reached in july. experts say it's a sign that companies are confident enough in the economy to expand. 4.2 million people quit their jobs in october. that's down from 4.4 million in september. it's still the third highest number of monthly resignations on record dating back to 2000. on wall street. the major indexes were higher for the third day in a row. the dow rose 35 points nasdaq gained 100, the s and p tacked on 14. analysts say traders are feeling more hopeful that omicron will not cause a major disruption to the u. s economic recovery. travel related companies were on the upside today, along with communications and healthcare stocks, california lawmakers are being asked to make the state and abortion sanctuary if roe v. wade is overturned. today. the california future of abortion council released a list of recommendations asking policymakers to pay for things like travel. lodging and child care for patients coming to the state. the report also asked lawmaker