• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-06-2015
• Business Technology
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Surveillance firm Hacking Team gets hackedWho watches the watchmen? Italian online surveillance company Hacking Team appears to have been hacked, with attackers releasing what purports to be a trove of internal documents showing how the company helps governments around the […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-06-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Leak of ZeusVM malware building tool might cause botnet surge

The Internet could see a new wave of botnets based on the ZeusVM banking Trojan after the tools needed to build and customize the malware program were published online for free.The source code for the builder and control panel of […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-06-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Italian surveillance software maker, Hacking Team, allegedly breached

An Italian developer of surveillance software, Hacking Team, which has previously been sharply criticized by digital activists, has apparently suffered a large data breach.Hacking Team develops surveillance tools that it has maintained are legally sold to governments for law-abiding investigations. […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-06-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Bitcoin glitch expected to abate as software upgrades continue

Bitcoin experienced a glitch over the weekend that is expected to be resolved as software clients that handle transaction data are upgraded.Some software clients that “mine” bitcoins are creating invalid transaction data, which are referred to as blocks. Blocks are […]