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Report: Bad communication among defense agencies makes China hacks more dangerous

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It’s not just the fact that China has been hacking U.S. military contractors’ networks, it’s that the agencies discovering the breaches and the contractors themselves haven’t been telling other agencies that need to know, a U.S. Senate report says.

The report investigated just 11 out of more than 80 contractors hired by one U.S. military agency that are supposed to report cyber security incidents. The Senate Committee on Armed Services found 50 successful intrusions, including at least 20 attributable to advanced persistent threats (APT) placed by China, according to the report by the

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Report: Ethiopian Government Hacks Journalists in US and Europe – Mashable

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Report: Ethiopian Government Hacks Journalists in US and Europe
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In March 2013, the researchers there had already found evidence of another surveillance software, FinSpy, a spyware developed by Gamma International, a UK firm selling software similar to the Hacking Team's. With this precedent in mind, Marczak had few …
Ethiopia uses Italian surveillance to hack their own journalists in US and …The Voice of Russia

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Spooky spying hacks that make homes seem haunted

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Back in the day, 1990s and early 2000s, you didn’t hear too much about remote administration tools (RAT), so victims of early RATs like Back Orifice, Netbus or Sub7 would often freak out when the CD-tray would open or close on its own, music files would play for no reason, emails would be snatched from thin air, or files, icons, the clock and task manager would disappear.
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