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The FBI Spent $775K on Hacking Team’s Spy Tools Since 2011

Wired Top Stories by Joseph Cox

After the company was hacked, details of Hacking Team’s previously unknown contracts have come to light.

Hacking Team Leaks Reveal Spyware Industry’s Growth, Negligence of Human Rights

Hacking Team and FinSpy Clients – map created using mapchart.net This week’s document leak from surveillance software vendor Hacking Teamprovided new details on the burgeoning growth of a private surveillance industry which has spread globally without any meaningful oversight. While revealing many new and concerning aspects of Hacking Team’s activities, it also confirmed a number of theories we’v

EFF.org Updates /

Hacking Team Employee Jokes About Assassinating ACLU Technologist

…at’s clear from reading through the trove of over one million emails from Italian surveillance firm Hacking Team is that its employees despise activists, many of whom have been criticizing them for years about their disregard for human rights. Christopher Soghoian, the ACLU’s Principal Technologist and an outspoken advocate for privacy and free speech, noticed Thursday thatHacking Team employee Daniele Milan joked about gathering enough Bitcoins to pay for his assassination. His email was dated

The Intercept / by Micah Lee /

Azerbaijan bought Hacking Team‘s surveillance spyware, leaks reveal – OCCRP

Azerbaijan bought Hacking Team‘s surveillance spyware, leaks revealOCCRPIn a 2008 presentation released by Wikileaks, the company claimed its RCS software – the software it has covertly provided the

Hacking Team Emails Expose Proposed Death Squad Deal, Secret U.K. Sales Push and Much More

… massive trove of emails and other documents obtained from the systems of Italian surveillance firm Hacking Team. The company’s controversial technology is sold to governments around the world, enabling them to infect smartphones and computers with malware to covertly record conversations and steal data. For years, Hacking Team has been the subject of scrutiny from journalists and activists due to its suspected sales to despotic regimes. But the company has successfully managed to hide most of i

The Intercept / by Ryan Gallagher /

What horrible things did we learn about Hacking Team today?

The enormous dump of docs from cyber-arms-dealer Hacking Teamcontinues to yield up details, like the time the company tried to sell spying tools to a death squad. The death squad in question is Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion, who asked for a demo of Hacking Team‘s surveillance tools.Hacking Team bid on the project through a local reseller, who assured them he was “pushing RAB to select our offer through our personal relat

Boing Boing / by Cory Doctorow /

Critical Flash and Windows security flaws unearthed inHacking Team hack

…puter after they visit a malicious website The flaw was discovered in the 400GB of data stolen from Hacking Team, a company that makes surveillance software for governments, after it was hacked over the weekend. See also:Hacking Team, which makes spyware for governments, just got hacked Adobe has acknowledged that the flaw exists, marking it as a “critical” vulnerability. It said a fix should be available on Wednesday The flaw affects Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.194 and earlier versions

Mashable! / by Stan Schroeder /

Hacked surveillance company struggles to regain control

Controversial Italian security firm Hacking Team was hacked itself on Sunday and 400GB of its data was made public. Since then, its attempts at damage control have, ironically, just led to more damage. Christian Pozzi, Hacking Team’s CEO, woke up on Monday to find his personal account details had been leaked. He then threatened security researchers for discussing his poorly chosen passwords on Twitter. Subsequently, Pozzi’s Twitter

The Next Web / by Abhimanyu Ghoshal /

Three of Ethiopia’s Zone 9 Bloggers Released From Prison, Cleared of All Charges

EFF.org Updates

Nine bloggers and journalists belonging to the Zone 9 collective were arrested in April 2014 and charged with terrorism for dubious offenses including “working with foreign organizations that claim to be human rights activists” and “inciting public disorder via social media”. In reality, the blogging collective worked to foster political debate and discussion, educating Ethiopian citizens on the constitution and seeking to promote human rights in the country.

What the Reddit Rebellion Is Really About

Slate Articles by David Auerbach /

“Reddit is revolting,” read the headlines. “No kidding,” came the response. Indeed, Reddit experienced a seismic rebellion this past weekend, but the reasons behind the brief shutdown of large portions of the site are a lot more complicated—and uglier—than you would think.

Leaked Documents Show FBI, DEA and U.S. Army Buying Italian Spyware

The Intercept by Cora Currier

The FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Army have all bought controversial software that allows users to take remote control of suspects’ computers, recording their calls, emails, keystrokes and even activating their cameras, according to internal documents hacked from the software’s Italian manufacturer.

Hacking Team Breach Shows a Global Spying Firm Run Amok

Wired Top Stories by Andy Greenberg

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.

Ellen Pao offers apology to Reddit moderators and users, says solutions are coming

The Next Web by Nate Swanner

Ellen Pao has apologized to the Reddit community at large. In a Reddit post, the CEO openly admits the site has failed moderators in a big way, and promises improvements for tools, communication and search to help make life easier. Pao wrote “we have apologized and made promises to you,

Web design is dead

Mashable! by UX Magazine

Web design is (finally!) dying of irrelevance. Web pages themselves are no longer the center of the Internet experience, which is why designers need to move on to the next challenges — products and ecosystems — if they want to stay relevant.

Proxy Services Are Not Safe. Try These Alternatives

Wired Top Stories by Kevin Montgomery

Free VPNs come with too many strings attached. It’s time to find a better solution.

Our Top Five Takeaways From Today’s Hearings on Encryption

EFF.org Updates

Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, FBI Director Comey wants you to know that he doesn’t want another crypto war. As he said today in hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), he just wants a discussion. Of course, it’s hard to have a discussion when you’re not listening to anyone else. And in this case, Comey and those who support weakening encryption simply aren’t listening to the experts telling them that backdoors or golden keys just won’t keep us safe.

Hacking Team, which makes spyware for governments, just got hacked

Mashable! by Stan Schroeder

When your company has a name like “Hacking Team,” it doesn’t look very good if you’re the ones getting hacked.

An ‘enemy of the internet’ that helps governments spy on citizens has been hacked

The Next Web by Mic Wright

The (ironically-named) Hacking Team is an Italian security firm with a history of supplying surveillance technology to governments around the world, including some unpleasant regimes. It’s now been hacked itself. As CSO Online reports, the source of the hack isn’t clear yet, but a torrent file with 400GB of internal documents, product source code and email archives is now public.

Blockchain versus vulture capitalism

open Democracy News Analysis – by Nozomi Hayase

The Bitcoin revolution offers a glimpse at a better humanity.

Mobile Draws Stronger Neurological Responses Than TV (Study)

All Facebook by David Cohen

Facebook IQ commissioned neuromarketing agency SalesBrain to (literally) get inside of its users’ heads.

The social network’s insights arm studied the brain and physiology responses of people shown the same content on smartphones and TVs, focusing onengagement, attention, emotion and retention.

Pirate Bay Was Worth Doing Prison Time For, Co-Founder Says

TorrentFreak

fredrik-neij Fredrik Neij, one of The Pirate Bay’s co-founders, was released early last month after serving a 10-month prison sentence for his involvement with the site.

A few days ago Fredrik arrived back home in Laos, where he’s enjoying his family and an unlimited stock of beer to get his liver back on track.

Reddit CEO Ellen Pao responds to admin firing outrage as petition against her gains steam

Mashable! by Adario Strange

The furor surrounding the firing of popular Reddit administrator Victoria Taylor took a new turn on Friday, when company CEO Ellen Pao commented on the resulting backlash.

Which Tweets are Being Indexed by Google Now – Update on the Twitter/Google Partnership

Social Media Today by Andrew Hutchinson

It’s been five months since Twitter announced a new deal with Google, granting the search giant access to it’s full fire hose of tweets. So how much content is Google now indexing as a result of the new Twitter partnership? The guys at Stone Temple Consulting have done some research to find out, and the results highlight some important correlations for brands.

A 1968 computer art contest

kottke.org by Jason Kottke

Computer Art 1968

From the August 1968 issue of Computers and Automation magazine, the results of their Sixth Annual Computer Art Contest (flip to page 8).

Why More Men Are Using Pinterest than Ever Before

Social Media Today by Corey Smock

The dichotomy on Pinterest is changing, with the platform’s male user base more than doubling in the last year, and sign-ups trending higher again in 2015. But what explains the sudden testosterone boost? With the ability to conduct more relevant searches, make quick purchases, and follow other like-minded men, it’s no wonder men are flocking to the visual-focused social network.

Reddit in Revolt: Moderators Shut Down Site After Firing Of Key Employee

Social Media Today by Carianne King

Hundreds of sections of Reddit, the online discussion board, were shut down on Friday in an apparent protest of the recent firing Victoria Taylor, the site’s director of talent. After word of her dismissal spread through the company, moderators for the site, who are all unpaid volunteers, blacked out their subreddits (individual discussions within the site divided into topics such as books, technology, movies, etc.)–and in effect, took the site down.

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