Adobe whips up patch for Hacking Team’s Flash 0-day attack
Adobe is racing out a patch to fix a flaw in Flash Player that was secretly used by Italian surveillance software outfit Hacking Team — until details of it were leaked on Sunday.
Adobe is racing out a patch to fix a flaw in Flash Player that was secretly used by Italian surveillance software outfit Hacking Team — until details of it were leaked on Sunday.
It was a banner week for the handling of personal information, with Australia's controversial metadata retention laws becoming law after Labor capitulated on its previous opposition to the legislation. Similar issues were at the fore in the US – where numerous technology companies pressed the US government to stop its collection of metadata – and Europe, where Dutch telcos were ordered to delete data retained under previous data-retention laws after they were found to be unconstitutional. And the EU's high court wasset to revisit the ability of US companies to handle the zealously-protected personal information of EU citizens.
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The attack on popular code-hosting site GitHub continues to rattle parts of the service three days after they began.
Microsoft is removing trust for digital certificate for several Google domains that could have been used to spoof its services and intercept traffic to them.