CrAKeN Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Windows 10 is safe from the CIA Microsoft has finally issued a statement regarding the WikiLeaks Vault 7 leak of CIA documents regarding the agency's hacking powers, saying that computers running Windows 10 software should be safe. According to Microsoft's statement, the vulnerabilities mentioned in the CIA files were dated and appeared to target older systems. "We take security issues very seriously and are continuing a deeper analysis to determine if additional steps are necessary to further protect our customers," the company said. Should any additional threats be discovered, Microsoft promises to inform customers. There is no mention whether people using previous Windows version are safe from CIA attacks or not. Apple, Google, Linux claim users are safe Microsoft's statement falls in line with what we've been hearing from all over the tech community. Apple and Google have said that customers running their latest software appear to be safe from vulnerabilities and that most of the issues mentioned in the WikiLeaks files have already been fixed. It's unclear what vulnerabilities are yet to be patched or whether there really are any. The Linux Foundation has also addressed the issue with a rather relaxed statement. They said that given the open-source nature of the operating system, with security updates being released every few days, there are little chances for users to be in danger from the CIA as any vulnerabilities they might have been able to exploit have long since been fixed. The major problem exposed by the CIA files WikiLeaks dumped the other day is the fact that the agency expressed a desire to stockpile zero-day vulnerabilities and find ways to exploit them. If its hackers didn't find the security holes, the CIA bought it off the Internet. Such vulnerabilities in iOS and Android were used by the CIA to create malware which got them full access to a target's phone, bypassing even encryption layers set down by apps such as WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram. This, of course, is the exact type of thing any serious malware can do. By refusing to disclose these zero-days to the affected companies, however, the CIA put billions of users at risk. After all, if the CIA found the vulnerability, who's to say other didn't too? Samsung and LG are still looking into the situation and are expected to release statements on the matter too. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sternog Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Imho this bs is claimed in order to protect M$ revenues from this OS. I`m pretty sure that Windows 10 has backdoors implanted by the CIA and the NSA, which allow to intercept keystrokes for example - to bypass encryption used in messengers etc. Information from your system is sent to M$ cloud, and the CIA and the NSA have full access to this cloud. Why is was even made free for legit users of 7 and 8.1 - because M$ changed their revenues model from customer sales to advertising and selling your private information to third parties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Apple OSX is not fixing all exploits. they are keeping exploits a lot. only ultra retards can say OSX is safe. Webkit at compile produces 10 000 warnings while Blink does under 50 Webkit= Apple Blink = Google Google writes code much more cleaner as Apple does. because Apple just wanna scam customers. IOS isn't much safer than OSX. but till there are people who think having a bitten apple symbol behind their laptop/phone means they are better people then Apple continues screwing people. lol even their forums don't use HTTPS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 Microsoft doesn't know what the CIA/NSA can do. It wasn't until yesterday that WikiLeaks said it would release the supposedly hacked tools to large companies to check their security with. However, most are not taking them up on their offer because none of the data that was released by WikiLeaks that was previously classified has been declassified so the list of those people downloading the torrent can be obtained and those individuals can be prosecuted under the law for having classified information. The data will never be declassified for this reason since any trace of it found on a computer can be an added charge in a criminal investigation or used as a lever to force compliance on other possible charges/issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 16 hours ago, straycat19 said: Microsoft doesn't know what the CIA/NSA can do. It wasn't until yesterday that WikiLeaks said it would release the supposedly hacked tools to large companies to check their security with. However, most are not taking them up on their offer because none of the data that was released by WikiLeaks that was previously classified has been declassified so the list of those people downloading the torrent can be obtained and those individuals can be prosecuted under the law for having classified information. The data will never be declassified for this reason since any trace of it found on a computer can be an added charge in a criminal investigation or used as a lever to force compliance on other possible charges/issues. Source or it ain't true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffDunhill Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 I really doubt what Microsoft said about it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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