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on Wednesday April 27 2016, @10:32AM
from the playing-with-fire-might-get-you-burned dept.
from the playing-with-fire-might-get-you-burned dept.
The attacker who broke into the computers of Hacking Team has written a narrative of the event, detailing the methods used. The write-up is available on pastebin in English (mirror) and in Spanish. (mirror).
Coverage:
In other news about Hacking Team, the Financial Times reports (semi-paywalled) that Italy's ministry of economic development, citing "changed political circumstances" that may be related to Italian-Egyption relations in the wake of the murder of Giulio Regeni, has revoked the company's licence to export outside the EU.
Related stories:
Italian Security Firm "Hacking Team" Has Been Compromised
Hacking Team Complains That its Leaked Zero-Days Will be Misused
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History repeats itself -- the first time as a tragi-comedy, the second
time as bedroom farce.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jcross on Wednesday April 27 2016, @02:36PM
I read this a couple days ago and was amazed at how easy it was for the author to own everything once he infected their unnamed embedded network device. My impression was that the hacking team was not doing a great job protecting themselves, given how much of their infrastructure was based on Windows software. I mean, I was surprised by how many passwords were apparently stored in the clear or unsalted (iirc the author did not guess those bad passwords, he just read them out of a file). I mean I knew Windows security was bad, but not that bad. These guys had no excuse for not knowing, though, because they made their nut exploiting holes in Windows. Did they seriously think they were immune?