Hacking Team claims terrorists can now use its tools
Hacking Team has warned that a devastating data breach it suffered will allow its spying tools to be used by criminals and terrorists.
Hacking Team has warned that a devastating data breach it suffered will allow its spying tools to be used by criminals and terrorists.
Hacking Team, a firm best known for helping governments spy on their citizens, has been hacked. Here's a curated look at the documents, contracts, and code discovered by researchers sorting the data online.
Researchers sifting through 400GB of data recently leaked from Hacking Team, an Italian company that sells computer surveillance software to government agencies from around the world, have already found an exploit for an unpatched vulnerability in Flash Player.
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An Italian developer of surveillance software, Hacking Team, which has previously been sharply criticized by digital activists, has apparently suffered a large data breach.
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