German researchers develop defense software: Potential protection against the "Hacienda" intelligence program

Friday, August 15, 2014 - 09:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Today, a group of journalists has reported the existence of the "Hacienda" spy program. According to this report, five western intelligence agencies are using the Hacienda software to identify vulnerable servers across the world in order to control them and use them for their own purposes. Scientists at the Technische Universität München (TUM) have developed free software that can help prevent this kind of identification and thus the subsequent capture of systems.

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