Guccifer, the Romanian hacker whose shenanigans exposed the existence of Hillary Clinton’s private email server, has been released this week from a Romanian prison and can now be extradited to the US to serve a 52-month prison sentence for hacking multiple US government officials between 2012 and 2014. More security news This is how government spyware StrongPity uses security researchers’ work against them Facebook approaches major cybersecurity firms, acquisition goals in mind Startup boasts unhackable email protection for the rest of us Microsoft Windows zero-day disclosed on Twitter, again The 46-year-old hacker, real name Marcel Lazăr Lehel, was set free this week after a Romanian court approved his release on parole.

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