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Newly leaked documents show low-level CIA Mac and iPhone hacks

24

Mar

2017

The U.S. CIA has had tools to infect Apple Mac computers by connecting malicious Thunderbolt Ethernet adapters to them since 2012, according to new documents purported to be from the agency and published by WikiLeaks. One of the documents, dated Nov. 29, 2012, is a manual from the CIA’s Information Operations Center on the use […]

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How much are vendor security assurances worth after the CIA leaks?

14

Mar

2017

Following the recent revelations about the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s cyberespionage arsenal, software vendors reiterated their commitments to fix vulnerabilities in a timely manner and told users that many of the flaws described in the agency’s leaked documents have been fixed. While these assurances are understandable from a public relations perspective, they don’t really change […]

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Of course your TV’s spying on you

14

Mar

2017

Julian Assange, Wikileaks’ founder and Russian propagandist, must be proud of himself. In his latest “revelation” that the Central Intelligence Agency can hack Apple and Android smartphones, PC operating systems and smart TVs, he has people throwing fits about how awful the CIA is. As my fellow Computerworld writer buddy Mike Elgan said, “The Wikileaks/CIA […]

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