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More of Hacking Team’s capabilities and questionable actions revealed
The Hacking Team data leak has shown us with whom the company does business with, and their employees’ and management’s unguarded opinions about various …
Security experts explain to US, UK governments why mandated encryption backdoors are a bad idea
Today, FBI director James Comey and Sally Quillian Yates, the deputy attorney general at the Justice Department, are scheduled to address the US Senate Judiciary Committee …
Hacking Team scrambling to limit damage brought on by explosive data leak
Who hacked Hacking Team, the Milan-based company selling intrusion and surveillance software to governments, law enforcement agencies and (as it turns out) companies? A hacker …
Flaw allows hijacking of professional surveillance AirLive cameras
Nahuel Riva, a research engineer from Core Security, discovered vulnerabilities in AirLive’s surveillance cameras designed for professional surveillance and security …
Hacking Team hacked, 400GB+ of company documents and emails leaked
Hacking Team, the (in)famous Italian company that provides offensive intrusion and surveillance software to governments, intelligence and law enforcement agencies around the …
WikiLeaks publishes reports showing NSA spied on French presidents
WikiLeaks has published “Espionnage Élysée”, a set of intelligence reports and documents that show that the US NSA has, between 2006 and 2012, intercepted the …
USA Freedom Act is just the beginning of the fight for privacy
The US Senate voted for the passing of the USA Freedom Act on Tuesday, and President Obama signed it into law later the same day. So, how will this impact the surveillance …
Section 215 of the Patriot Act expired last night
A small, perhaps temporary, but important victory has been won by privacy advocates today, as the US Senate has allowed three sections of the USA PATRIOT Act to expire.Among …
If we want strong encryption, we’ll have to fight for it
As digital rights lawyer and special counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation Marcia Hofmann correctly noted in her keynote at Hack in the Box Amsterdam 2015 on Thursday, …
Researchers track Android users by collecting accelerator readings
A group of researchers from Nanjing University, China, have demonstrated that Android users’ movements can be tracked by simply analyzing the data provided by the …
Newly disclosed Logjam bug might be how the NSA broke VPNs
Another vulnerability courtesy of 1990s-era US export restrictions on cryptography has been discovered, and researchers believe it might be how the NSA managed to regularly …
South Korean minors to be monitored via smartphone spying apps
The Korea Communications Commission, South Korea’s media regulation agency modeled after US’ FCC, has made it mandatory for telecoms and parents to install a …
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