Ethiopia spying case casts spotlight on cyber surveillance in US

Lawsuit alleges that Addis Ababa used private technology to monitor Internet communications of dissident-linked American By Jenifer Fenton A first-of-its kind lawsuit that resumes in a U.S. District Court on Tuesday has drawn attention to the private surveillance-technology industry as a potential enabler of spying on Americans. The case involves a U.S. citizen who alleges

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Italian cyber-security firm suspects foreign government was behind mass attack

ROME (Reuters) – Italian cyber-security firm Hacking Team said a government might have been behind a massive hack of its systems and warned that the subsequent leaking of its computer codes could prove a field day for criminals. Unknown hackers last week downloaded 400GB of data from the firm, which makes surveillance software that allows

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WikiLeaks Releases Hacking Team and Biniam Tewolde’s Email exchange.

Today Wikileaks releases more than 1 million searchable emails from the Italian surveillance malware vendor Hacking Team, which first came under international scrutiny after WikiLeaks publication of the SpyFiles. These internal emails show the inner workings of the controversial global surveillance industry. Mail is From: Mail is To: Doc # Date Subject From To 453216 2012-05-14 20:58:17

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Meet the Ethiopians who lived in fear of the state surveillance Hacking Team helped make possible

Perhaps no massive hack of a private company has been met with such glee on Twitter as the one that occurred early Monday morning. A notoriously unethical Internet security firm called “Hacking Team” itself became the target of a hacker, resulting in an outpouring of LOLz from those who enjoy a healthy dose of schadenfreude,

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This company sells spy tools to evil governments

CNN We know dictatorships spy on innocent people. And now we know where they buy their tools — from a tiny Italian company in Milan. It’s called Hacking Team. And the world knows about it, because Hacking Team has been hacked. On Sunday, a massive load of stolen documents were uploaded to the Internet. It

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This company sells spy tools to evil governments

CNN We know dictatorships spy on innocent people. And now we know where they buy their tools — from a tiny Italian company in Milan. It’s called Hacking Team. And the world knows about it, because Hacking Team has been hacked. On Sunday, a massive load of stolen documents were uploaded to the Internet. It

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Ethiopia paid $1 million for surveillance software- Hacked Email shows

Even hackers get hacked. Hacking Team, the Italian company that sells intrusion and surveillance tools to governments and law enforcement agencies, including to Ethiopian National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) has been hacked in a massive way. The company is now being ridiculed and humiliated on the internet as the Hacked Team. The hackers released

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Ethiopia paid $1 million for surveillance software- Hacked Email shows

Even hackers get hacked. Hacking Team, the Italian company that sells intrusion and surveillance tools to governments and law enforcement agencies, including to Ethiopian National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) has been hacked in a massive way. The company is now being ridiculed and humiliated on the internet as the Hacked Team. The hackers released

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Spyware vendor may have helped Ethiopia target journalists – even after it was aware of abuses, researchers say

By Andrea Peterson The Ethiopian government appears again to be using Internet spying tools to attempt to eavesdrop on journalists based in suburban Washington, said security researchers who call such high-tech intrusions a serious threat to human rights and press freedoms worldwide. The journalists, who work for Ethiopian Satellite Television in Alexandria, Va., provide one

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Hacking Team and the Targeting of Ethiopian Journalists

February 27, 2014 Tigre Liberation Front’s no-holds-barred electronic espionage in the United States February  2014 Authors: Bill Marczak, Claudio Guarnieri, Morgan Marquis-Boire, and John Scott-Railton. This post is the first in a series of posts that focus on the global proliferation and

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