Wikileaks has published details of what it says are wide-ranging hacking tools used by the CIA. Some of the software is reported to have been developed in-house, but the UK's MI5 agency is said to have helped build a spyware attack for Samsung TVs. Wikileaks said that its source had shared the details with it to prompt a debate into whether the CIA's hacking capabilities had exceeded its mandated powers. And then there will be the questions over whether the CIA's technical capabilities were too expansive and too secret. Read more from GordonHacked TVsThe effort to compromise Samsung's F8000 range of smart TVs was codenamed Weeping Angel, according to documents dated June 2014.

Source: The Star March 08, 2017 03:04 UTC