By Jack Gillum | AP WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama faces pressure to discuss human rights in his first official visit to Ethiopia this weekend, a unique lawsuit back home is challenging whether the African country can spy on an American by turning his computer into a giant recording device. The federal case alleges
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Lawsuit alleges that Addis Ababa used private technology to monitor Internet communications of dissident-linked American By Jenifer Fenton A first-of-its kind lawsuit that resumes in a U.S. District Court on Tuesday has drawn attention to the private surveillance-technology industry as a potential enabler of spying on Americans. The case involves a U.S. citizen who alleges
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By Andrea Peterson Now we know what it takes to get your hacking tools taken away if you’re a repressive government. It’s not enough to get caught spying on U.S.-based journalists — or even to have the story plastered on the front page of a major U.S. newspaper. But if you get caught doing it
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ROME (Reuters) – Italian cyber-security firm Hacking Team said a government might have been behind a massive hack of its systems and warned that the subsequent leaking of its computer codes could prove a field day for criminals. Unknown hackers last week downloaded 400GB of data from the firm, which makes surveillance software that allows
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Today Wikileaks releases more than 1 million searchable emails from the Italian surveillance malware vendor Hacking Team, which first came under international scrutiny after WikiLeaks publication of the SpyFiles. These internal emails show the inner workings of the controversial global surveillance industry. Mail is From: Mail is To: Doc # Date Subject From To 453216 2012-05-14 20:58:17
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Perhaps no massive hack of a private company has been met with such glee on Twitter as the one that occurred early Monday morning. A notoriously unethical Internet security firm called “Hacking Team” itself became the target of a hacker, resulting in an outpouring of LOLz from those who enjoy a healthy dose of schadenfreude,
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CNN We know dictatorships spy on innocent people. And now we know where they buy their tools — from a tiny Italian company in Milan. It’s called Hacking Team. And the world knows about it, because Hacking Team has been hacked. On Sunday, a massive load of stolen documents were uploaded to the Internet. It
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CNN We know dictatorships spy on innocent people. And now we know where they buy their tools — from a tiny Italian company in Milan. It’s called Hacking Team. And the world knows about it, because Hacking Team has been hacked. On Sunday, a massive load of stolen documents were uploaded to the Internet. It
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Even hackers get hacked. Hacking Team, the Italian company that sells intrusion and surveillance tools to governments and law enforcement agencies, including to Ethiopian National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) has been hacked in a massive way. The company is now being ridiculed and humiliated on the internet as the Hacked Team. The hackers released
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Even hackers get hacked. Hacking Team, the Italian company that sells intrusion and surveillance tools to governments and law enforcement agencies, including to Ethiopian National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) has been hacked in a massive way. The company is now being ridiculed and humiliated on the internet as the Hacked Team. The hackers released
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