Wikileaks: CIA has tools to snoop via TVs
Other claims say the CIA:
- was trying to find ways to infect vehicles’ computer control systems. Wikileaks claims these might *have been used for undetectable assassinations
- had found ways to infect “air-gapped” computers - machines that are not linked up to the internet or other insecure networks. Methods are said to have included hiding data in images or hidden parts of computer storage
- had developed attacks against popular anti-virus products
- had built up a library of hacking techniques “stolen” from malware developed in Russia and elsewhere
Wikileaks describes its release as the first in a series of planned leaks about the CIA’s cyber-activities, which it refers to as Vault 7.
It added that the material had already circulated among hackers who used to work for the US government as well as contractors in an unauthorised manner.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39193008
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- Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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