Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Italian technology company Hacking Team of violations of human rights in Ethiopia. HRW is a nongovernmental advocacy group that seeks to expose offenders of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that was (UNDR) adopted by…
Gov’t to form ‘cyber police team’ to curb online crimes
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans THE government will form a team of experts to go after cyber criminals. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, in her speech Wednesday during launching and signing of the Implementing Rules and Regulation of the Cyber Crime Prevention Act of 2012, said…
APNewsBreak: Leaked Hacking Team emails suggest Ecuador illegally spied on opposition
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans LIMA, Peru (AP) — Ecuadorean opposition activist Dr. Carlos Figueroa was being pursued by the state when his email and Facebook accounts were hacked. Several dozen of his colleagues have similarly had their digital lives violated. All blamed President Rafael Correa’s…
Hacking Team Leaks Confirm What Arab Privacy Advocates Already Knew
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans For several years now, privacy advocates in the Middle East and North Africa have grappled with the impact of targeted surveillance technologies on various communities in their countries. These tools, sold by unscrupulous European companies to some of the world’s least…
New free tool detects Hacking Team exploits
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A security company has released a free tool to users who suspect they may be a victim of Hacking Team’s exploit cache. Hacking Team is a secretive Milan-based firm which specializes in the sale of surveillance tools, malware and exploits to…
Cyberspies love exploits from Hacking Team leak
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The leaked files from surveillance software maker Hacking Team have proven to be a great resource for cyberespionage groups, which have used at least two Flash Player exploits from the company’s arsenal. Last Tuesday, security researchers from security firm FireEye detected…
How a Russian hacker made $45,000 selling a zero-day Flash exploit to Hacking Team
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans If you’re a Moscow-based zero-day exploit seller, all you have to do is e-mail a spyware company like Hacking Team out of the blue. You can go from initial, unsolicited message to getting paid tens of thousands of dollars in just…
Hacking Team Hack Leaks Adobe Flash Zero-Day
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Adobe is reporting a critical vulnerability in its popular Flash Player. The software company on Tuesday revealed nearly all versions of the player for Windows, Macintosh and Linux are at risk. This zero-day vulnerability is especially critical, given Trend Micro’s March…
Hacking Team falls prey to hack attack. Why hackers get hacked.
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans An Italian cybersecurity firm was hacked on a grand scale late on Sunday evening. While the full extent of the hack is not yet known, the company has seen over 400 gigabytes of company information shared online over the weekend. The…
‘Hacking Team’ Hack Proves Governments Can Spy On Jailbroken iPhones
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Forget about voiding your warranty and potentially rendering your iPhone unusable if something goes wrong, Apple fans now have another reason to avoid jailbreakingtheir smartphones: Government agencies like the NSA have the ability to spy on jailbroken iPhones, and now we…
