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  • Monday, 13 December, 2021
    NSO Group Technologies
    Israel’s NSO considering sale or shutdown of Pegasus unit

    Military-grade spyware maker has faced scandals with product traced to high-profile phone hacks

  • Tuesday, 9 November, 2021
    Israel
    EU-funded West Bank activists hacked by Pegasus spyware, says rights group

    Software found on Palestinian campaigners’ phones shortly before Israel designated NGOs as terrorists

  • Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
    Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
    Dubai’s billionaire ruler targeted ex-wife with NSO’s Pegasus spyware

    UAE’s Sheikh Mohammed authorised agents to use military-grade software during court battle over welfare of children

  • Sunday, 18 July, 2021
    NSO Group Technologies
    Probe claims spyware used to hack journalists, activists and executives

    Investigative consortium alleges Pegasus software licensed to governments by NSO Group was misused

  • Thursday, 10 December, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Al Jazeera journalist sues Saudi crown prince and UAE leader over phone hack

    Ghada Oueiss alleges she was targeted in attempt to silence her and other critics of Saudi government

  • Friday, 24 January, 2020
    Ingram Pinn
    Ingram Pinn’s illustration of the week: One-click delivery

    Saudis alleged to have hacked Jeff Bezos’s phone

  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2020
    Cyber Security
    US businessman accuses UAE wealth fund of hacking emails

    Allegations part of a civil lawsuit involving Ras al Khaimah Investment Authority

  • Friday, 4 October, 2019
    Prince Harry
    Prince Harry sues tabloid owners over alleged phone hacking

    Move suggests the courts have extended statute of limitations on breaches of privacy

  • Monday, 8 July, 2019
    Heather Mills wins ‘substantial’ settlement over phone hacking

    Murdoch-owned News Group gives ex-wife of pop star Paul McCartney ‘unmitigated apology’

  • Monday, 3 June, 2019
    Fund management
    Cartoon, June 3

    The everyday mobile phone user and spying in the digital age

  • Thursday, 16 May, 2019
    Marietje Schaake
    Governments must halt the spread of commercial spyware

    Surveillance tools are for sale to whoever can afford them

  • Wednesday, 26 September, 2018
    Special ReportCyber Security
    US and China back AI bug-detecting projects

    Labs are preparing to roll out automated tools that find security flaws posed by faulty computer code

  • Wednesday, 9 May, 2018
    Leveson inquiry and phone hacking scandal
    UK newspapers claim MPs vote is victory for press freedom

    Commons narrowly rejects case for a new inquiry into media behaviour

  • Wednesday, 10 January, 2018
    Leveson inquiry and phone hacking scandal
    Lords vote renews pressure for fresh UK phone-hacking probe

    May government plans Commons challenge to amendment calling for second Leveson inquiry

  • Friday, 30 June, 2017
    Newspaper industry
    Trinity Mirror sets aside extra £7.5m for phone-hacking claims

    Newspaper publisher earmarked £60m in total for cases amid further falls in print advertising

  • Tuesday, 11 April, 2017
    Law
    Gordon Ramsay’s father-in-law admits hacking celebrity chef

    Chris Hutcheson alleged to have been searching for material useful in civil litigation

  • Friday, 3 March, 2017
    Telecoms
    Phone-hacking memories likely to send Fox bid for Sky to Ofcom

    Culture secretary is ‘minded’ to intervene on media plurality and standards concerns

  • Wednesday, 14 September, 2016
    Newspaper industry
    News International executives in contempt of parliament over phone-hacking

    Colin Myler, former News of the World editor, condemned by committee of MPs

  • Monday, 18 January, 2016
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Elisabeth Murdoch set to return to television industry

    Daughter of mogul invests in new company that is in direct competition with father’s media empire

  • Wednesday, 7 January, 2015
    European companies
    Charlie Hebdo: Paris suffers murderous nightmare

    How carnage unfolded at magazine

  • Tuesday, 30 December, 2014
    World
    Corruption prosecutors suspended in Turkey

    Action taken against officials who led inquiry that led to the dismissal of four ministers

  • Monday, 29 December, 2014
    Oil
    Petrobras finds itself in deep water

    The national oil company is at risk of becoming a pariah

  • Monday, 22 December, 2014
    beyondbricsMarkets
    Hello 2015: a make or break year for Mexico’s Peña Nieto
  • Friday, 19 December, 2014
    FT AlphavilleChris Nuttall
    FirstFT (the new Lunch Wrap)
  • Thursday, 18 December, 2014
    The most popular stories of 2014

    Russia, China, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, the Scottish independence referendum, robots, killer satellites and the debunking of ‘big data’ resonated with readers

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