Hints and tips:
...I hope the producers of James Bond are paying attention, as the news creeps towards a fresh disclosure in the spy franchise....
...Set your WhatsApp messages to auto-delete: foreign spies might be reading them....
...British politicians have been urged to turn on the “disappearing messages” function to automatically delete their WhatsApp exchanges, in new guidance from UK spies to protect against hacking attempts....
...US officials have long feared Beijing could subvert the app to spy on, or spread propaganda or misinformation to, its 170mn American users....
...This month a dozen delegates to China’s top political gathering told the Financial Times they were using domestic brand phones, with several alleging iPhones could spy on them....
...Meanwhile, investment banks in the dotcom era directed IPO stock to the personal accounts of other clients they were soliciting, and whatever the rationale, it was bad optics at best....
...“And they will probably make a somewhat more modest ask for optics reasons. But I’d be stunned if they didn’t ask for a fee, in whatever form, worth multiple billions of dollars.”...
...US executives are back in greater numbers in a sign that bilateral tensions have eased slightly after falling to new lows last year due to a spy balloon incident....
...Since then, she and Shanahan have vied with their arch rivals, Newmark’s Douglas Harmon and Adam Spies, for supremacy of the Manhattan skyline....
...In a chilly hangar in Northern Ireland, Ulster Aviation Society co-founder Ray Burrows surveys painstakingly restored aircraft including a sleek black Sherpa jet, a boxy Short 330 and a Canberra spy plane...
...Their effort a year ago was derailed when a suspected Chinese spy balloon flew over the US in February....
Spain and Portugal expected to see fastest growth as digital platforms proliferate
...Hackers backed by Russian intelligence exploited a SolarWinds software product in order to spy on businesses and government organisations globally, including the US commerce and Treasury departments....
...The US company acquired optic interconnect tech provider Mellanox....
...An 18k gold pen adorned with rubies and diamonds features a windowed door at one end, which opens to reveal a butterfly spreading an enamelled wing — a nod to Orient Express passenger and British spy Robert...
...“The snooping party first used Pegasus to spy against opposition leaders and other institutions and are now using other tools to continue spying,” said Mallikarjun Kharge, president of the opposition Indian...
Washington’s move poses threat to valuations of ByteDance and other Chinese tech groups
...Hacking Inc....
...Apple’s theatrical push will continue in late November with the release of Napoleon, a biopic directed by Ridley Scott, and Argylle, a spy thriller directed by Matthew Vaughn, next year....
...Given — or despite — their respective positions as top espionage assets, neither suspected the other was a spy....
...Nearby an entourage discusses the optics of announcing their client’s return from a nervous breakdown with a shoot in which she wears a skimpy robe and medical bracelet....
...A new Netflix spy thriller, Treason, is no exception on either front. Released on Boxing Day, the five-parter rather aptly feels like the reheated leftovers of other espionage adventures....
...Glass Lewis said the “optics” surrounding the historical relationship between deSouza and Thompson should have contributed to the selection of a comparably qualified alternative candidate unfettered by personal...
...Its flagship S&P 500 fund, SPY, the world’s largest with $431bn in assets, is not eligible because of rules surrounding its structure as a unit trust....
...The ban on iPhones, iPad tablets and other Apple devices at leading ministries and institutions reflects growing concern in the Kremlin and the Federal Security Service spy agency over a surge in espionage...
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