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Hidden Lynx – Professional Hackers for Hire The Hidden Lynx group is a professional team of attackers with advanced capabilities. They were responsible for the compromise of security firm Bit9's digital code-signing certificate which was used to sign malware. The Bit9 breach was part of the much larger VOHO campaign and that campaign was just one of many operations undertaken by the group over the last four years. Click here to download [Sponsored] Latest News Nov 9, 2013 Google engineers over surveillance scandal: 'Fuck you NSA' On Tuesday, the Washington Post revealed a few more NSA slides released by Edward Snowden, which revealed that the spy agency NSA was infiltrating the private data links between Google and Yahoo data centers as part of a program called MUSCULAR. Chairman and former CEO of Google Eric Schmidt says the company's executives are shocked by allegations that the National Security ... Read more... FBI offering $100,000 reward for information on Most Wanted Cyber Criminals The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has added five new hackers to its Cyber most wanted list and is seeking information from the public regarding their whereabouts. The men are wanted in connection with hacking and fraud crimes both within the US as well as internationally. Rewards ranging from up to $50,000 to $100,000 are being offered for information that leads to their arrest. Cai ... Read more... Smartphones, A Perfect Cyber Espionage and Surveillance Weapon The use of mobile devices in government environments concerns the secret service of any states, cyber espionage more often exploits the mobile platforms. Mobile devices are reason of great concern for governments, they have a great computational capability, huge memories to store our personal data, GPS to follow our movements and are equipped with a camera and microphone to increase our ... Read more... CVE-2013-3906 : Zero Day Vulnerability in Microsoft Graphics Component Microsoft has issued a temporary fix for a 0day vulnerability that can be exploited to install malware via infected Word documents. A Zero-day Remote code execution flaw, which has been dubbed CVE-2013-3906, exploits a vulnerability in a Microsoft graphics component, to target Microsoft Office users running Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008."The vulnerability is a remote ... Read more... Hidden Lynx – Professional Hackers for Hire The Hidden Lynx group is a professional team of attackers with advanced capabilities. They were responsible for the compromise of security firm Bit9's digital code-signing certificate which was used to sign malware. The Bit9 breach was part of the much larger VOHO campaign and that campaign was just one of many operations undertaken by the group over the last four years. Click here to download [Sponsored] This email was sent to paradic3z.autopost@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. If you would like to manage your newsletter preferences or if you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, please click here. The Hacker News, Global Contact: info@thehackernews.com