Shiri Dolev, the president of the secretive NSO Group Technologies, vented over what she called false myths about the firm. Dolev also took indirect aim at secure messaging platforms, offered by the likes of Facebook, explaining surveillance companies may soon have to step in where law enforcement companies can t. In October, Facebook subsidiary WhatsApp sued the Israeli technology firm for creating tools allegedly used by its clients for reading the protected WhatsApp messages of journalists and human rights workers. In court filing, Facebook accuses the company of helping government spies break into the phones of roughly 1,400 users and hacking the handsets of targets.
Source: https://threatpost.com/nso-group-president-defends-controversial-tactics/150694/