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Credit to Author: John Brandon| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 07:25:00 -0800

Major media has some egg on their face over this one.

Drawn to the attention-grabbing idea of your Samsung TV being compromised by the CIA, and knowing a lot of people have a Samsung TV, the headlines went something like this.

WikiLeaks says CIA hacked Samsung smart TVs

Why your smart TV is the perfect way to spy on you

None of these reports bothered to explain any of the details.

As noted in Wired and in this Forbes report, the CIA cannot spy on you over wireless. To update a Samsung TV, they’d need to use a USB key to install a firmware update. Also, the televisions are older models from 2013. To record any conversations or video, the CIA would then have to copy files back onto the USB drive.

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ComputerWorld Independent

March 8, 2017 admin

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

Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 06:48:00 -0800

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 to listen in on conversations near smart devices including smart TVs — it’s clear that government agents have long had the ability to grab mobile content before it’s encrypted.

Some of the tactics have names that are quite explicit about their function, such as a TV mode called “TV Fake-Off.” These docs provide a fascinating look into the government teams that are emulating cyberthieves, trying to improve on their techniques rather than thwart them.

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ComputerWorld Independent

March 8, 2017 admin

CIA repurposed Shamoon data wiper, other malware

Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 06:35:00 -0800

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency documents published by WikiLeaks Tuesday shows that one of the agency’s teams specializes in reusing bits of code and techniques from public malware samples.

According to the leaked documents the Umbrage team is part of the Remote Development Branch under the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence. It maintains a library of techniques borrowed from in-the-wild malware that could be integrated into its own projects.

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Security Wired

March 8, 2017 admin

How the CIA’s Hacking Hoard Makes Everyone Less Secure

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 14:59:12 +0000

By keeping dozens of its spying tools secret, the CIA may have left billions of people open to being hacked. The post How the CIA’s Hacking Hoard Makes Everyone Less Secure appeared first on WIRED.

Fortinet Security

March 8, 2017 admin

Byline: The Move to Standardization and Open Architectures Enables Cybersecurity Automation For the Government Sector

Credit to Author: Steve Kirk | Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 07:17:56 -0800

In order to remain responsive, resilient, and agile, government organizations must adopt open, integrated, and automated security architectures that enable the collection and sharing of threat intelligence and the ability to coordinate a response to detected threats.

Security TrendMicro

March 8, 2017 admin

How to Secure Your Enterprise

Credit to Author: Raimund Genes (Chief Technology Officer)| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 14:00:20 +0000

This year, keep your company protected from cyber criminals. Over the past decade, the threat landscape has evolved extensively from the beginnings of worms in 2001 to botnets and spyware in 2005. Now, targeted attacks, mobile threats and destructive crypto-ransomware are a daily reality. The damage caused by these threats has escalated, as well, to potentially crippling levels for an impacted organization. To mitigate…

ComputerWorld Independent

March 8, 2017 admin

Senator probes into CloudPets smart toy hack

Credit to Author: John Ribeiro| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 04:40:00 -0800

A U.S. senator is seeking answers about a data breach involving smart toys made by Spiral Toys, writing a letter to the company’s CEO asking about the company’s security practices.

Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, wrote in a letter Tuesday to CEO Mark Meyers that the breach raises serious questions concerning how well the company protects the information it collects, particularly from children.

Nelson also said that the incident raises questions about the vendor’s compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which requires covered companies to have reasonable procedures to protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of personal information collected from children.

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