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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.

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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ComputerWorld Independent

March 8, 2017 admin

CIA-made malware? Now antivirus vendors can find out

Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 04:29:00 -0800

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 secret hacking operations, including spying tools designed for mobile phones, PCs and smart TVs.

WikiLeaks has redacted the source code from the files to prevent the distribution of cyber weapons, it said. Nevertheless, the document dump — if real — still exposes some of the techniques that the CIA has allegedly been using.

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ComputerWorld Independent

March 8, 2017 admin

Senate resolution aims to roll back privacy rules for ISPs

Credit to Author: John Ribeiro| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 03:57:00 -0800

A resolution introduced in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday aims to roll back privacy rules for broadband service providers that were approved by the Federal Communications Commission in October.

The rules include the requirement that internet service providers like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon obtain “opt-in” consent from consumers to use and share sensitive personal information such as geolocation and web browsing history and also give customers the choice to opt out from the sharing of non-sensitive information such as email addresses or service tier information.

The rules have been opposed by ISPs that argue that they are being treated differently from other Internet entities like search engines and social networking companies.

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ComputerWorld Independent

March 8, 2017 admin

Apple says it has already patched ‘many’ (not all) leaked CIA exploits

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 03:51:00 -0800

Details concerning multiple iOS, Mac, and AirPort exploits allegedly used by the CIA were published by Wikileaks late last night.

The documents reveal an extensive quantity of exploits used against Apple devices, thought WikiLeaks has not published any of the technical details or computer code that was also leaked to prevent these hacks disseminating any further. (Though we don’t know who else got the data).

Post-privacy

The documents offer the deepest look yet into how intelligence services (including the CIA, GCHQ, and others) have worked together to undermine the security of products from multiple vendors, including Apple.

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Security Wired

March 7, 2017 admin

WikiLeaks CIA Dump Gives Russian Hacking Deniers the Perfect Ammo

Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky and Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 00:03:33 +0000

The latest document dump doesn’t prove the CIA faked the Russian hacking scandal, but online it doesn’t have to. The post WikiLeaks CIA Dump Gives Russian Hacking Deniers the Perfect Ammo appeared first on WIRED.