Where’s Assange? Tech firms are still waiting to receive CIA documents from Wikileaks
A cohort of technology firms that were named in leaked CIA documents published by WikiLeaks more than two weeks ago are still waiting to receive important information from the transparency organization concerning software vulnerabilities that were targeted by the spy agency. WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange said earlier this month that the controversial organization would work with affected technology companies by privately providing them with executable code and other technical details that had been purposely redacted from the document dump. The idea is that affected companies will access some of this hidden material from WikiLeaks to effectively “develop fixes.” More than 15 different technology companies are mentioned in the CIA document dump. Spokespeople for G DATA, Comodo, BitDefender, TrendMicro, Avira and Avast all said that WikiLeaks had yet to contact their companies. Avira, Comodo and BitDefender’s products are discussed in the leaked CIA documents under a section labelled “AV defeated,” which contains information […]
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