Friday, 6 November 2015

Hacking Team, famous for supplying malware to spy on journalists, is back in business

According to a report by Motherboard, Hacking Team, the Italian based technology vendor that rose to fame when a 40GB Wikileaks leak brought to light it was selling covert surveillance technology to governments with questionable human rights records, is back in business.

Approaching various US law enforcement agencies, government agencies and local police departments via email, the company’s CEO David Vincenzetti has been offering encryption-cracking tools stating that, “Only the private companies can help here; we are one of them.”

Vincenzetti went on to add, “It is crystal clear that the present American administration does not have the stomach to oppose the American IT conglomerates and to approve unpopular, yet totally necessary, regulations.” For the full article click here



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