NBC Los Angeles

Experts: Don't Dump Devices Over WikiLeaks CIA Docs

So, you use messaging apps like WhatsApp or Signal or have smart TVs and PCs. Should you worry that the CIA is listening to your conversations? The short answer is no. The long answer is maybe, though ...
Computerworld

If the CIA can sidestep encryption, what makes you think cyberthieves can’t?

Having just spent much of the day browsing through Wikileaks’ latest batch of documents from the intelligence community — in which government agents discussed ways to circumvent mobile encryption and ...
CSOonline

CIA-made malware? Now antivirus vendors can find out

Thanks to WikiLeaks, antivirus vendors will soon be able to figure out if you have been hacked by the CIA. On Tuesday, WikiLeaks dumped a trove of 8,700 documents that allegedly detail the CIA’s ...
Richmond

Compromised encryption machines gave CIA window into major human rights abuses in South America

Like all but a few Crypto employees, Buehler knew nothing about CIA ownership of Crypto or that its devices were rigged so American spies could crack other countries’ codes. At CIA headquarters, ...