Digital Spy

Surveillance software firm Hacking Team breached in cyber attack

In what is the very definition of irony, Hacking Team - a company that specialises in surveillance software - has been targeted in a cyber attack. The firm suffered a large-scale data breach and its ...
ExtremeTech

Enormous leak exposes Hacking Team as blackhat organization

The security community is buzzing about the release of more than 400GB of corporate data from the Italian security firm Hacking Team, a revelation that's being called the security industry's version ...
ABC 7 Chicago

I-Team: Illinois student accused in hacking scheme targeting US Navy, colleges, corporations

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There are federal hacking charges in a scheme that targeted major companies and colleges, and one of those charged is an Illinois college student. For two years, there was a ...
Jezebel

The Hacking Team leak shows Mexico was its top client, but why?

Last week’s hack of an Italian cybersecurity firm known as The Hacking Team revealed that Mexico was — by leaps and bounds— the company’s leading client for surveillance software that some fear could ...
Computerworld

Detekt tool finds the Hacking Team’s secret surveillance malware on PC

If you’ve ever wondered if the government has you under surveillance via your PC, then you need to run the new and free malware detection tool Detekt. It has already found traces of the Hacking Team's ...
Gizmodo

WikiLeaks Published a Searchable Directory of Hacking Team’s Emails

Want dirt on one of the dirtiest tech companies ever? WikiLeaks published a searchable database of over a million leaked emails from Hacking Team, the nefarious Italian spyware company that was ...
Business Wire

Carnegie Mellon’s hacking team wins fourth straight, record ninth overall DEF CON Capture-the-Flag title

PPP joined forces with CMU alumnus and University of British Columbia Professor Robert Xiao's team, Maple Bacon, and hackers from CMU Alum startup Theori.io (The Duck), playing under the name Maple ...
TechCrunch

CEO of spyware maker Memento Labs confirms one of its government customers was caught using its malware

On Monday, researchers at cybersecurity giant Kaspersky published a report identifying a new spyware called Dante that they say targeted Windows victims in Russia and neighboring Belarus. The ...
Reuters

Special Report: Inside the UAE’s secret hacking team of U.S. mercenaries

The rules, however, are clear on hacking U.S. networks or stealing the communications of Americans. “It would be very illegal,” said Rhea Siers, former NSA deputy assistant director for policy. The ...
Business Wire

Carnegie Mellon’s Hacking Team Wins Third Straight, Record Eighth Overall DEF CON Capture-the-Flag Title

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The winningest team in DEF CON’s Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition history, Carnegie Mellon University’s Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its third consecutive title, ...