{"id":41325,"date":"2021-10-20T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41325"},"modified":"2021-10-20T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T01:11:00","slug":"us-cracks-down-on-tools-for-foreign-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41325","title":{"rendered":"US cracks down on tools for foreign hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commerce Department on Wednesday took steps to crack down on the sale of certain hacking products used by foreign governments and other groups to surveil and repress individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The agency\u2019s Bureau of Industry and Security issued an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zfddvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrpmzrff_pclhmmjqjbhljyccfvqh.html?a=&amp;b=43530\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zfddvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrpmzrff_pclhmmjqjbhljyccfvqh.html?a%3D%26b%3D43530&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1634857487763000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG3Wpxf4bzo4jarthoZQ5q_qW69DQ\">interim final rule<\/a>\u00a0that establishes controls on the export, reexport or transfer of certain cybersecurity items, requiring a license to ship these products to any countries posing a national security or weapons of mass destruction risk, such as China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some governments banned:<\/strong>\u00a0Users restricted from using these products, which include surveillance tools, would include governments posing a threat or subject to arms embargoes, and users who intend to use the products in a way that would compromise information systems without the owner\u2019s permission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese items warrant controls because these tools could be used for surveillance, espionage, or other actions that disrupt, deny or degrade the network or devices on it,\u201d the rule reads.<\/p>\n<p>Commerce Secretary\u00a0Gina Raimondo\u00a0said Wednesday that the rule was intended to protect human rights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some background:<\/strong>\u00a0The rule was issued following growing concerns about the use of hacking tools by foreign governments for surveillance purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Apple last month released\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rrgwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbcnrjrjj_pclhmmjqjbhljyccfvqh.html?a=&amp;b=43530\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rrgwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbcnrjrjj_pclhmmjqjbhljyccfvqh.html?a%3D%26b%3D43530&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1634857487763000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFCryMrZQWuVW2gdwJOGJH4IlBTLQ\">emergency updates<\/a>\u00a0for many of its products following the discovery of a vulnerability that allowed Israeli company NSO Group to infect Apple products with spyware. The vulnerability was discovered when Citizen Lab was investigating a phone used by a Saudi Arabian activist that had been infected with NSO Group spyware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commerce Department on Wednesday took&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41326,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41325\/revisions\/41326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}