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.
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The government's long-awaited cybersecurity policy finally dropped along with a $230m funding commitment and a determination to draw more heavily on academic and private-sector resources.
David Braue | 26 Apr | Read more
Hacking Team is back in the news again. Last weekend, the person responsible for Hacking Team's meltdown posted a recap of the incident, including a detailed overview of how they hacked the Italian firm.
Steve Ragan | 21 Apr | Read more
Zero-day broker Zerodium claims to have awarded $1 million to an unnamed hacking team that found a remotely exploitable bug in iOS 9.1 that it almost certainly will not share with Apple.
The Ashley Madison postmortem continued, with Trend Micro uncovering apparent spams that were being used by the company in conjunction with fake user profiles – and some suggesting that the way the firm's developers had stored sensitive credentials allowed hackers to slip past their defences and crack 11.2 million passwords. Such source-code analysis is proving to be a treasure trove for hackers, with one cyberespionage group caught borrowing code from a leaked online banking Trojan.
David Braue | 14 Sep | Read more
While the proactivity of Australia's government around IT security has led the world, a security expert has warned, ever-fiercer attacks will force more aggressive corporate governance monitoring and government intervention to protect areas such as critical infrastructure and the Internet of Things (IoT).
David Braue | 13 Aug | Read more
<em>This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.</em>
By Kevin Mahaffey, CTO, Lookout | 15 Aug | Read more