Android, Chrome security bugs fixed: Google
Google believes it's already protected individuals mistreatment Android-powered phones and its Chrome OS from several of the safety weaknesses.
The Latest on the publication by WikiLeaks of what it delineate as thousands of pages of confidential files concerning CIA hacking activities (all times ET):
8 p.m.
Google believes it's already protected individuals mistreatment Android-powered phones and its Chrome software system from several of the safety weaknesses disclosed by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.
The support given weekday happened thirty six hours once WikiLeaks free thousands of documents that it claims show a broad program by the CIA to show everyday gadgets like iPhones into snooping tools by exploiting antecedently covert software system flaws.
Apple had antecedently aforementioned it mounted several of the issues that created iPhones and iPads vulnerable.
The robot software system, that Google offers away to device manufacturers, powers concerning eight out of each smartphones within the world.
Google aforementioned it's still analyzing the documents free by WikiLeaks and can take the other further security steps.
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4:30 p.m.
The CIA says Americans ought to be "deeply troubled" by WikiLeaks' speech act of thousands of intelligence documents that supposedly detail ways in which the agency will its hacking.
In a statement weekday, the CIA did not ensure its files were purloined. CIA spokesperson Heather Fritz Horniak says the agency won't investigate the believability of the documents free or on the standing of any investigation into the supply of the documents.
The agency says such disclosures not solely jeopardize U.S. personnel and operations, however conjointly equip yankee adversaries with tools and data to break U.S. national security.
Intelligence and enforcement officers square measure still reviewing the cache of over eight,000 documents free.
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2:30 p.m.
The White House says there is a massive distinction between the leaky of classified info and therefore the hacking of the e-mail account of Sir Edmund Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer was asked concerning WikiLeaks' unharness of thousands of documents that it claims show a broad program by the CIA to show iPhones and alternative gadgets into police work tools.
Spicer says there is a "massive, large difference" between leaky classified material and therefore the hacking of the e-mail account of John Podesta, a high Clinton advisor throughout the campaign.
Trump aforementioned throughout his fall campaign, "I love WikiLeaks," and infrequently praised the discharge of emails by WikiLeaks involving Clinton and her team.
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12:30 p.m.
Apple says several of the safety vulnerabilities disclosed by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks were mounted weeks agone.
On Tuesday, WikiLeaks free thousands of documents that it claims show a broad program by the CIA to show everyday gadgets like iPhones into snooping tools by exploiting antecedently covert software system flaws.
Apple says its initial analysis shows that its latest version of the iOS system software system for iPhones and iPads fixes several of these flaws. That version came enter Gregorian calendar month, well before the newest WikiLeaks unharness.
Apple says it'll "continue work to chop-chop address any known vulnerabilities."
Apple is encouraging its users to transfer the newest version of iOS for the foremost recent security updates.
Google hasn't commented nonetheless on similar vulnerabilities with its robot system.
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8 p.m.
Google believes it's already protected individuals mistreatment Android-powered phones and its Chrome software system from several of the safety weaknesses disclosed by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.
The support given weekday happened thirty six hours once WikiLeaks free thousands of documents that it claims show a broad program by the CIA to show everyday gadgets like iPhones into snooping tools by exploiting antecedently covert software system flaws.
Apple had antecedently aforementioned it mounted several of the issues that created iPhones and iPads vulnerable.
The robot software system, that Google offers away to device manufacturers, powers concerning eight out of each smartphones within the world.
Google aforementioned it's still analyzing the documents free by WikiLeaks and can take the other further security steps.
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4:30 p.m.
The CIA says Americans ought to be "deeply troubled" by WikiLeaks' speech act of thousands of intelligence documents that supposedly detail ways in which the agency will its hacking.
In a statement weekday, the CIA did not ensure its files were purloined. CIA spokesperson Heather Fritz Horniak says the agency won't investigate the believability of the documents free or on the standing of any investigation into the supply of the documents.
The agency says such disclosures not solely jeopardize U.S. personnel and operations, however conjointly equip yankee adversaries with tools and data to break U.S. national security.
Intelligence and enforcement officers square measure still reviewing the cache of over eight,000 documents free.
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2:30 p.m.
The White House says there is a massive distinction between the leaky of classified info and therefore the hacking of the e-mail account of Sir Edmund Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer was asked concerning WikiLeaks' unharness of thousands of documents that it claims show a broad program by the CIA to show iPhones and alternative gadgets into police work tools.
Spicer says there is a "massive, large difference" between leaky classified material and therefore the hacking of the e-mail account of John Podesta, a high Clinton advisor throughout the campaign.
Trump aforementioned throughout his fall campaign, "I love WikiLeaks," and infrequently praised the discharge of emails by WikiLeaks involving Clinton and her team.
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12:30 p.m.
Apple says several of the safety vulnerabilities disclosed by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks were mounted weeks agone.
On Tuesday, WikiLeaks free thousands of documents that it claims show a broad program by the CIA to show everyday gadgets like iPhones into snooping tools by exploiting antecedently covert software system flaws.
Apple says its initial analysis shows that its latest version of the iOS system software system for iPhones and iPads fixes several of these flaws. That version came enter Gregorian calendar month, well before the newest WikiLeaks unharness.
Apple says it'll "continue work to chop-chop address any known vulnerabilities."
Apple is encouraging its users to transfer the newest version of iOS for the foremost recent security updates.
Google hasn't commented nonetheless on similar vulnerabilities with its robot system.
© 2017 BHARTIYA TREND ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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