Category: WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks claims to reveal how CIA hacks TVs and phones all over the world

The CIA has become the preeminent hacking operation, sneaking into high-tech phones and televisions to spy on people worldwide, according to an explosive WikiLeaks publication of purported internal CIA documents on Tuesday. To hide its operations, the CIA routinely adopted hacking techniques that enabled them to appear as if they were hackers in Russia, WikiLeaks said.

WikiLeaks Offers to Shield Tech Firms from CIA Hacking Tools

WikiLeaks will work with technology companies to help defend them against the CIA’s hacking tools, founder Julian Assange said Thursday. The move sets up a potential conflict between Silicon Valley firms eager to protect their products and an intelligence agency stung by the radical transparency group’s disclosures.

WikiLeaks to provide tech firms access to CIA hacking tools: Assange

WikiLeaks has much more detailed information about CIA hacking techniques and will allow tech companies access so they can “develop fixes” before the information is more widely published, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Thursday. The news conference took place at the Embassy of Ecuador in London, where he has been holed up since seeking asylum in 2012.

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The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks raised the prospect Wednesday of sharing sensitive details it uncovered about CIA hacking tools with leading technology companies whose flagship products and services were targeted by the U.S. government’s hacker-spies. If that sharing should take place, the unusual cooperation would give companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung and others an opportunity to identify and repair any flaws in their software and devices that were being exploited by U.S. spy agencies and some foreign allies, as described in nearly 9,000 pages of secret CIA files WikiLeaks published on Tuesday.

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An alleged CIA surveillance program disclosed by WikiLeaks on Tuesday, March 7, 2017, purporte… WASHINGTON – The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks raised the prospect Wednesday of sharing sensitive details it uncovered about CIA hacking tools with leading technology companies whose flagship products and services were targeted by the U.S. government’s hacker-spies. If that sharing should take place, the unusual cooperation would give companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung and others an opportunity to identify and repair any flaws in their software and devices that were being exploited by U.S. spy agencies and some foreign allies, as described in nearly 9,000 pages of secret CIA files WikiLeaks published on Tuesday.

Revelations Illustrate Aggressive CIA Hacking, Sloppy Security Of Smart Services

Wikileaks today released over 8,000 documents illustrating hacking activities of the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA. In what has been described by some commentators as a bigger leak than the Snowden revelations about the National Security Agency in 2013, the whistleblower platform allowed a glimpse into the CIA hacking into smart TVs and smartphones and presented a list of zero day vulnerabilities found, bought and sometimes shared with colleagues in other agencies, including British colleagues.

WikiLeaks reveals how CIA hacks YOUR phones, TVs

WikiLeaks has released what it termed as the biggest-ever leak of confidential documents from the Central Intelligence Agency, claiming the America’s premier spy agency partnered with foreign intelligence agencies to turn TVs and smartphones into weapons for surveillance. WikiLeaks says: The increasing sophistication of surveillance techniques has drawn comparisons with George Orwell’s 1984, but ‘Weeping Angel;, developed by the CIA’s Embedded Devices Branch, which infests smart TVs, transforming them into covert microphones, is surely its most emblematic realization.

WikiLeaks publish 1000s of what they say are CIA documents

In this Aug. 18, 2014, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, right, speaks during a news conference with Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Swedish prosecutors on Thursday Aug. 13, 2015 dropped cases of lesser sexual misconduct against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange but said they still want to question him on accusations of rape made after his visit to Stockholm five years ago.

Wikileaks claims to release CIA’s hacking arsenal

WikiLeaks claims to release CIA’s hacking arsenal The website published thousands of CIA files and documents Tuesday. Check out this story on thetowntalk.com: http://usat.ly/2mB7AER WikiLeaks published thousands of documents Tuesday it described as the CIA’s hacking arsenal, a document dump the website called the “largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency.”

Guccifer 2.0 & me

Who or what is Guccifer 2.0? US intelligence agencies believe the mysterious hacker persona was central to efforts to interfere with last year’s American election and responsible for distributing hacked documents that embarrassed the Democratic Party. But now Guccifer 2.0 has broken a two-month silence to deny any connection to Russia.

Trudy Rubin: Russian efforts to undermine democracy clear

Why on Earth would you side with an anti-American, former KGB colonel over your own intelligence community? I know you say you have “tremendous respect for the work and service” done by this community, but much damage has been done. Even many GOP senators were disturbed when you rejected the firm conclusion of top U.S. intel officials that Vladimir Putin’s team used leaks and hacking to interfere with the U.S. election.

WikiLeaks: Russia hacking report was political document

In this Feb. 5, 2016 file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. Assange on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, denounced last week’s U.S. intelligence report on Russian hacking, calling it a politically motivated “press release” that provided no evidence that Russian actors gave WikiLeaks hacked material.

[Rachel Marsden] Accusations turn intelligence into propaganda

The outgoing Obama administration apparently isn’t quite finished politicizing intelligence for the purpose of propaganda. With his final term coming to an end, US President Barack Obama has signed an executive order to address a “national emergency with respect to significant malicious cyber-enabled activities.”