Information About On The Wire

Spyware vendor NSO Group has appealed the ruling of a United States federal judge that it must cease targeting WhatsApp users with zero click Pegasus spyware claiming it will sustain potentially existential injuries if a permanent injunction is not stayed. The manufacturer of the sophisticated surve … Read more »

An Australian cybersecurity executive living in the United States has pleaded guilty to selling trade secrets to a Russian cyber broker. The nature of the trade secret software has not been made public but prosecutors said it was intended to be sold exclusively to the U.S. government and trusted all … Read more »

Generative artificial intelligence is a specialized field of artificial intelligence that uses generative models to produce text and other forms of data. Sometimes called GenAI, these models learn the patterns and structures of vast amounts of data and then use that information to produce new data b … Read more »

On May 5, 2021, Diexin Liu was moving from Calgary, Alberta, to Toronto, Ontario, when he was stopped by a highway patrol officer near Swift Current, Saskatchewan. He was arrested when the officer saw unstamped tobacco in the vehicle. And a search turned up five kilograms of cannabis. Convicted by a … Read more »

Former FBI director James Comey has been charged with lying to the United States Congress in a case that deepens concerns that the Department of Justice is being weaponized in pursuit of public figures regarded as political enemies by President Donald Trump. The indictment was filed as the White Hou … Read more »