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Motherboard
December 25, 2016
As it turned out, someone, presumably the UAE government, was trying to hack into the activist's iPhone using an unknown hacking tool developed by a shadowy Israeli hacking contractor. This was the first time anyone had caught a remote jailbreak—the technical term for taking control of an iPhoneÃÂ ...
Boing Boing
September 15, 2016
When asked a series of more detailed questions, however, Srivastava refused to elaborate, instead reiterating that Aglaya never did any business as a government hacking contractor and that attending ISS was “an exercise of time and money, albeit, in futility.” He complained that his company's failure wasÃÂ ...
Motherboard
September 13, 2016
A surveillance contractor was advertising a series of unknown vulnerabilities, or zero-days, as part of a wide-ranging—and shady—catalog of hacking services offered to governments around the world. Aglaya, a small and little-known Indian contractor, was selling zero-days for Windows operating systems,ÃÂ ...
Motherboard
September 2, 2016
The leaked brochure, which had never been published before, not only exposes Aglaya's questionable services, but offers a unique glimpse into the shadowy backroom dealings between hacking contractors, infosecurity middlemen, and governments around the world which are rushing to boost theirÃÂ ...
WIRED
December 28, 2015
But Rouland, who once ran the controversial government hacking contractor firm Endgame, has bet his next company, an Internet-of-Things-focused security startup called Bastille, on the risks of hackable digital objects. And he argues that public understanding of those risks is on the rise. “2015 has beenÃÂ ...
CorpWatch.org
August 20, 2013
James Bimen Associates of Virginia and Harris Corporation of Florida have contracts with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to hack into computers and phones of surveillance targets, according to Chris Soghoian, principal technologist at American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy andÃÂ ...
RT
January 6, 2017
The “evidence” of alleged 2016 Russian election hacks, provided to the US government by private contractors of questionable credibility,ÃÂ ...
Motherboard
December 25, 2016
... was trying to hack into the activist's iPhone using an unknown hacking tool developed by a shadowy Israeli hacking contractor. This was theÃÂ ...
Boing Boing
September 15, 2016
... never did any business as a government hacking contractor and that attending ISS was “an exercise of time and money, albeit, in futility.
Boing Boing
September 15, 2016
... never did any business as a government hacking contractor and that attending ISS was “an exercise of time and money, albeit, in futility.
Motherboard
September 13, 2016
A surveillance contractor was advertising a series of unknown vulnerabilities, or zero-days, as part of a wide-ranging—and shady—catalog ofÃÂ ...
Motherboard
September 2, 2016
... into the shadowy backroom dealings between hacking contractors, ... business as a government hacking contractor and that attending ISSÃÂ ...
WIRED
December 28, 2015
But Rouland, who once ran the controversial government hacking contractor firm Endgame, has bet his next company,ÃÂ ...
CorpWatch.org
August 20, 2013
James Bimen Associates of Virginia and Harris Corporation of Florida have contracts with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to hackÃÂ ...
RT
January 6, 2017
The "evidence" of alleged 2016 Russian election hacks, provided to the US government by private contractors of questionable credibility, contains only baseless assumptions and creates international tensions, 'Inside Cyber Warfare' CEO Jeffrey Carr told RT.
Boing Boing
September 15, 2016
When asked a series of more detailed questions, however, Srivastava refused to elaborate, instead reiterating that Aglaya never did any business as a government hacking contractor and that attending ISS was "an exercise of time and money, albeit, in ...
Motherboard
September 3, 2016
The leaked brochure, which had never been published before, not only exposes Aglaya's questionable services, but offers a unique glimpse into the shadowy backroom dealings between hacking contractors, infosecurity middlemen, and governments around ...
Voltimum
February 16, 2016
So far these are mostly demonstrations paid for by security companies or hacking contractor firms hired by manufacturers; the real world is yet to suffer from a significant malicious hack (aside from occasional bank cloned details or identity theft ...
WIRED
December 28, 2015
... security entrepreneur Chris Rouland. But Rouland, who once ran the controversial government hacking contractor firm Endgame, has bet his next company, an Internet-of-Things-focused security startup called Bastille, on the risks of hackable digital ...
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