Sentences with phrase «cia hacking tools»

In April, it was reported that a mysterious hacker group known as the Shadow Brokers leaked a trove of NSA and CIA hacking tools, exposing how intelligence agencies use ransomware and even smart TVs to spy.

The Justice Department has been weighing bringing criminal charges against WikiLeaks, which leaked top secret diplomatic cables and military documents in 2010 and disclosed CIA hacking tools in March.

Not exact matches

Rohrabacher, for his part, didn't condemn WikiLeaks when it leaked the CIA's hacking tools in March; rather, he told far - right media outlet Breitbart that the revelations showed that the US is «sliding... into an authoritarian mode where the government is running the lives of the people.»

Assange has said that WikiLeaks will share details of the vulnerabilities with Apple and other big tech companies, so they can fix the vulnerabilities that the CIA uses for its hacking tools.

According to reports from CNN and the Washington Post, the Justice Department is preparing to charge Assange for his role in the 2010 dump of diplomatic cables that were published by WikiLeaks, as well as a more recent release of the CIA's library of hacking tools.

WikiLeaks, led by Julian Assange, said its publication of the documents on the hacking tools was the first in a series of releases drawing from a data set that includes several hundred million lines of code and includes the CIA's «entire hacking capacity.»

The FBI is investigating whether a former CIA employee jailed on child pornography charges is also tied to a massive leak of cyber hacking tools.

The Latest on a federal investigation to determine whether a former CIA employee jailed on child pornography charges is also tied to a massive leak of cyber hacking tools (all times local):

Depicting a weeping angel surrounded by code, he refers to a hacking tool developed by CIA to spy on citizens.

The WikiLeaks documents mentioned that network routers manufactured by Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE could be hacked using the CIA tools.

The recent string of reports pertaining to a WikiLeaks document dump alleging the CIA's hacking tools caused a fit of unrest over data security.

News organization have been abuzz this week following the release of a new WikiLeaks document dump detailing the hacking tools used by the CIA to spy on Americans.