Miami New Times |
Hacking Team Tried to Sell Smartphone Viruses to South Florida Cops
Miami New Times When infected, the computer essentially becomes a part of a malicious botnet controlled by a single user. … In a newsletter broadcast to a mailing list October 3, 2014, Hacking Team introduced RCS as "the most effective vector to target Android phones. |
“Developing the U.S. market. Well done,” reads an email from Hacking Team CEO David Vincenzetti dated on May 22. That comment was in regards to the Hacking Team meeting with the Florida Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation (MBI) in Orlando after the police agency expressed an interest in purchasing surveillance malware. MBI is a “a multi-agency task force that covers Orange and Osceola counties” and includes members from DEA, FBI, ICE, Secret Service and other agencies.
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A 14-year-old middle school student in Holiday, Florida, was arrested this week and charged with “an offense against a computer system and unauthorized access,” which is a felony, the Tampa Bay Times reported this week.
The student reportedly used an administrator password to log into a teacher’s computer and change the background image to a photo of two men kissing.
He was initially suspended for three days for the prank, but Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco suggested that the criminal charges relate to the level of access he had obtained by logging onto the network as an administrator, according to the report. For example, he could have seen the questions for the state’s standardized tests, although Green said he didn’t actually tamper with anything other than the teacher’s PC background image, the report says.
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New York Times |
Latest data breach shows need to beef up internet security
Florida Today The latest data breach shows need to beef up internet security. (Photo: Blend Images, John Lund/Getty Images/Creative Outlet). 8 CONNECTTWEET 7 LINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE. The revelation that Russian hackers stole more than one billion … Russian Hackers Amass Over a Billion Internet Passwords Internet security freak-out of the week: Russian gangsters have a billion … Eight tips to improve your internet security |