HACKING TEAM AND BOEING SUBSIDIARY INSITU , ENVISIONED DRONES DEPLOYING SPYWARE. There are lots of ways that government spies can attack your computer, but a U.S. drone company is scheming to offer them one more. Boeing subsidiary Insitu would like to be able to deliver spyware via drone. The plan is described in internal emails from […]
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Worried that you might have been targeted with Hacking Team spyware, but don’t know how to find out for sure? IT security firm Rook Security has released Milano, a free automated tool meant to detect the Hacking Team malware on a computer system. It does so by looking for files […]
When members of the the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) met with the Italian surveillance company Hacking Team in Ottawa in 2011, they weren’t just interested in the company’s remote spy software—they also inquired about Hacking Team’s collection of software vulnerabilities, exploits, and network hacking tools. Oh, and they invited […]
Adobe Systems Inc. says its plans to issue a patch on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Flash Player software that is reportedly being exploited in active attacks. The flaw was disclosed publicly over the weekend after hackers broke into and posted online hundreds of gigabytes of data from […]