Tag: Central Intelligence Agency

Australia plans law for tech firms to hand over encrypted private data or face millions in fines, jail time for execs

Tuesday, August 14, 2018 12:02 pmTuesday, August 14, 201816 Comments

Australia on Tuesday proposed a new law requiring technology firms…

iCloud changes put Apple on collision course with overreaching governments

Thursday, July 20, 2017 2:44 pmThursday, July 20, 201711 Comments

Apple has consistently argued against laws that would require tech companies to build so-called ‘back doors’ into their software…

Apple flies in top executives to lobby Australia’s Turnbull government on encryption laws

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 5:17 pm10 Comments

Apple’s top privacy executives have flown out to Australia twice in the past month…

Apple meeting with Australian government to discuss proposed encryption ‘back doors’

Tuesday, July 18, 2017 2:33 pmTuesday, July 18, 201732 Comments

Attorney-General George Brandis will meet with global tech-giant Apple this week…

WikiLeaks says CIA disguised agency hacking as Russian activity

Friday, March 31, 2017 2:32 pmFriday, March 31, 201772 Comments

WikiLeaks has published hundreds more files today which it claims show the CIA went to great lengths to disguise…

Apple: Macs and iPhones are safe from CIA exploits revealed by WikiLeaks

Friday, March 24, 2017 4:45 pmFriday, March 24, 20178 Comments

Apple says that its preliminary assessments of the WikiLeaks documents released today…

Apple: No Wikileaks negotiations, Wikileaks calls Apple’s claim they’ve fixed all Dark Matter vulnerabilities ‘duplicitous’

Friday, March 24, 2017 10:43 am14 Comments

Apple issued a strong statement on Friday after Wikileaks released a handful of documents about Central Intelligence Agency…

New WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 data dump shows the CIA’s Mac firmware attacks

Thursday, March 23, 2017 5:00 pmThursday, March 23, 201723 Comments

The EFI is what orchestrates the entire boot sequence. If you change something before that…

New WikiLeaks Vault 7 ‘Dark Matter’ leak claims CIA bugs ‘factory fresh’ iPhones, infects Mac firmware

Thursday, March 23, 2017 11:41 amThursday, March 23, 201732 Comments

A new WikiLeaks Vault 7 leak, “Dark Matter,” claims that the United States of America’s Central Intelligence Agency…

WikiLeaks to give Apple, Google, others 90-day deadline to fix flaws revealed in ‘Vault 7’

Tuesday, March 21, 2017 1:38 pm10 Comments

WikiLeaks promise to give tech companies access to exploits in their systems before being made public…

What WikiLeaks’ CIA data dump tells us: Encryption works

Saturday, March 11, 2017 11:34 am26 Comments

If the tech industry is drawing one lesson from the latest WikiLeaks disclosures…

Julian Assange says WikiLeaks will share CIA hacking tools with tech companies

Thursday, March 9, 2017 3:01 pm7 Comments

WikiLeaks will provide technology companies with exclusive access to CIA hacking tools…

Apple working to close remaining CIA exploits exposed by WikiLeaks, but difficulties remain

Thursday, March 9, 2017 11:46 am11 Comments

Just after 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning, mobile phones belonging to executives on Apple…

WikiLeaks raises prospect of teaming with tech giants, including Apple, to thwart CIA hacker-spies

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 4:35 pm8 Comments

The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks raised the prospect Wednesday of sharing sensitive details…

Apple: Many of the iOS vulnerabilities in Wikileaks’ CIA data dump are already patched

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 9:56 amWednesday, March 8, 201729 Comments

Wikileaks today published a trove of documents, allegedly taken from the CIA..

WikiLeaks reveals CIA’s global covert hacking program targeting Apple iPhone, Google Android, Microsoft Windows and even Samsung TVs

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 11:11 amTuesday, March 7, 201741 Comments

Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency…