Another month another WikiLeaks revelation, and cybersecurity is right in the middle of it all. As you probably already heard this past week, WikiLeaks released what many believe to be CIA’s tools arsenal to hack to into pretty much anything. Samsung smart TVs, iOS phones, Android smart devices, messaging App services, etc. You name it and WikiLeaks says that the CIA has technology capabilities to hack into it. Nothing has yet been confirmed from the CIA about those claims, nobody should expect them to, but those are among what Snowden talked about in the past.
Google confirmed that recent WikiLeaks information are not serious cybersecurity threats. In other words, nothing surprising from a security perspective. Google is not saying that you should not be surprised that the CIA is spying on you. The search giant is trying to explain that WikiLeaks’ claims are fundamental technologies against which companies and consumers should be able to protect themselves if WikiLeaks is telling the truth. I am looking forward to see how this matter is evolving.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-03-10/wikileaks-releases-cia-hacking-tools-fbi-probes
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