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The fact that a company called Hacking Team was hacked, combined with the disclosure of their shady clientele, has several diminished the credibility of previous denials the company has made about their engaging in this kind of profiteering. It also validates criticisms that groups like the EFF and Reporters Without Borders have thrown at Hacking Team – basically, that they provide agents around the globe with cyberweapons used for the suppression of democracy and the violation of human rights.

Hacking Team offers their clients a “Remote Control System” (RCS) that combines a variety of spyware technologies into one comprehensive surveillance suite. According to The Citizen Lab, this RCS product essentially allows users to do things like turn the microphones and cameras of their targets’ mobile phones on/off, monitor and record communications, and copy files and passwords.

While Hacking Team sells exclusively to governments, companies are designing products and services to give them similar capabilities.

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- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/privacy-in-the-digital-world-shouldnt-we-talk-about-it/

Surveillance software maker Hacking Team has provided its government customers with the ability to infect the low-level firmware found in laptops and other computers that they wanted to spy on.

The company developed a tool that can be used to modify a computer’s UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) so that it silently reinstalls its surveillance tool even if the hard drive is wiped clean or replaced.

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Hacking Team has been hacked and its social media account hijacked, the news is shocking the IT security industry because privacy advocated have always accused the company to sell surveillance products and hacking tools to repressive regimes. The unknown attackers have exfiltrated some 400Gbs of data that have been uploaded to BitTorrent, the stolen information includes a huge number of directories containing source code, emails, list of clients (including the FBI), and also audio recordings.

The Hacking Team restored the control of its Twitter account late on Monday morning, meanwhile the website is offline at the time I’m writing.

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Die Steuerverwaltung ist nicht Kunde der gehackten italienischen Softarefirma „Hacking Team“. Aber der Luxemburger Geheimdienst hat dort ein Programm gekauft, so Regierungschef Xavier Bettel am Dienstag im Parlament.

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Der Srel nutzt die 2012 eingekaufte Spionagesoftware noch heute. Dies geht aus Dokumenten aus dem Leak von "Hacking Team" hervor, die dem "Luxemburger Wort" vorliegen.

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Premierminister Xavier Bettel bestätigte am Dienstag, dass der Luxemburger Geheimdienst zu den Käufern einer Spionagesoftware der italienischen Firma "Hacking Team" gehört. Ob diese Software heute noch in Gebrauch ist, sagte Bettel nicht.

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The epic hack of a global, private spying company comes just as the US government considers new regulations to control the export of digital intrusion tools.

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