Interviewed two former employees of Hacking Team. Software forbidden … – Rai News

The prosecutor in Milan has heard for five hours two former employees of Hacking Team who had asked to clarify its position. Meanwhile, it turns out a flaw on Windows and Flash making them vulnerable to malware product from the Milan-based company that reveal foreign sites, he also sold software to the Russians, in violation of EU restrictive measures.

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Milan 22 July 2015 They were interrogated for about five hours by prosecutors in Milan Alessandro Gobbis two former employees of Hacking Team, investigated for the cyber attack suffered by the Milan-based company that provides surveillance programs to governments around the world, such as the now famous software spy ‘Galileo’.
This is a senior software developer, Guido Landi, and a trade of Lebanese origin, Mostapha Maanna. Both had resigned from Hacking Team in May 2014 to establish their own companies, the Mala srl.
Were themselves asked to be questioned, to clarify its position. Besides Landi and Maanna, have investigated three other people, former employees and consultants of the company, who will be interviewed in the coming days from
pm Gobbis.
Investigators intend to listen to twenty of other people, including employees and professionals who have been in contact with Hacking Team. Are underway, in addition, analysis of the material acquired during an inspection at the headquarters of the company, as part of the investigation conducted by the police post.
Guido Landi and Mostapha Maanna, defended by Sandro Clementi, rejected the accusation of having attacked Hacking Team causing the leakage of large computer equipment then published by WikiLeaks, is what has been learned in relation
interrogators. The two former employees of Hacking Team are under investigation for unauthorized access and information disclosure of trade secrets.
Registration of six former employees for the moment seems to be a “necessary act” to their security, but would not have the inside track the only followed the prosecutors in Milan Alessandro Gobbis origin of the attack.

Microsoft and vulnerable Flash
The attack Hacking Team is highlighting vulnerabilities in programs commonly used by millions people around the world as Flash, Adobe software to display video and multimedia content on the web, and Windows, the operating system present on the vast majority of PC.

Microsoft has released an emergency update that affects Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1, RT 8 and 8.1, Server 2008 and 2012 and a preview of Windows 10, which will debut officially on July 29 next. The ‘bug’ concerns OpenType, a font developed by Microsoft and later from Adobe, that could be
exploited to infect computers remotely simply by pushing users into opening a malicious web page or the compromessa.Secondo Engadget site, updating emergency is related to Hacking Team, but Microsoft said it is not aware of any attacks exploiting the security flaw.

Software to the Russians
Meanwhile emerges from the emails published by WikiLeaks that Hacking Team could have sold spying software to the Russian secret service, in violation of the Regulation of the Council of the EU in July 2014 on restrictive measures against Russia. The sale would take place in August last year, a company that works with the former KGB. According to the site ArsTechnica, Haking Team would sell spy software at a company called Advanced Monitoring, whose parent company has a license to work with the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB).