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Mila Fiordalisi
China ends up in the software out of hand to the Italian company Hacking Team . According to reports from the site South China Morning Post , two groups of hackers operating in the Asian country would use the tools in the network after the cyber attack to the Milan-based company to launch attacks cybercriminals. In particular, hackers would take advantage of some loopholes in the program Flash Adobe , already come to light some day. Also as stated on the website of China Chinese hackers would have sneaked in Flash in particular to target specific industry, from telecommunications all’erospazio, from defense to energy.
The flaws in Adobe are pushing up uninstalls the platform for many users and the network are hundreds “tutorial” that invite you to remove the software. And they are moving even companies: Mozilla , for example, has already decided to disable it by Firefox . On Twitter the new head of security Facebook, Alex Stamos , said it is now that decrees the end of Adobe Flash.
Meanwhile, early this morning was the hearing in the Prosecutor by the pm Alexander Gobbis of the Ad Company Italian David Vincenzetti . The manager is acting as plaintiff in the survey taken after the complaint lodged by him about two months ago against some of his former employees accused of stealing from the company server some source code. A total of 6 people (all former employees and former employees of Hacking Team) came under investigation on charges of unauthorized access to the computer system and disclosure of trade secrets. And today’s hearing of Vincezetti may have also affected the second line of inquiry that aims to shed light on the action of hacking that hit Hacking Team. The alleged crime, against persons unknown at the time, is unauthorized access to the computer system.
Guido Landi and Mostapha Maanna , two former employees under investigation to prosecutors in Milan have asked to be heard in the next giorni.Vincenzetti speculates that have managed to get hold of the source code needed to replicate the software created by Hacking Team, using it for their activities. The company in recent days by a cyber attack that led to the violation of 400 gigabytes of confidential data
kept in its internal server, their publication on WikiLeaks, as well as the partial disclosure of the source code of “ Galileo ” program used by governments and law enforcement agencies around the world.
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