Husain Parvez

A newly released court document from WhatsApp’s lawsuit against NSO Group has confirmed that 1,223 users across 51 countries were targeted by Pegasus spyware in a two-month attack campaign in 2019. The breakdown, based on internal WhatsApp data, provides the most detailed picture yet of how widely

A UK tribunal has ruled that the government cannot conduct its legal battle with Apple concerning encryption behind closed doors, affirming the public’s right to open justice in a case with wide-reaching privacy implications. The judgment, handed down by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal on April

A serious security vulnerability in Verizon’s Call Filter app allowed users to access the incoming call logs of any other Verizon customer by modifying an API request. The issue, discovered by cybersecurity researcher Evan Connelly, was disclosed to Verizon in February 2025 and patched by

OpenSNP, a long-running open-source genetic data platform, is shutting down after citing growing concerns over data privacy, the misuse of genetic information by law enforcement, and the rise of authoritarian governments. The decision comes as 23andMe, a major source of user-submitted genetic data