Theft of CIA's "Vault Seven" Hacking Tools Due to Its Own Lousy Security

Schneier on Security 2020-06-18

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The Washington Post is reporting on an internal CIA report about its "Vault 7" security breach: The breach -- allegedly committed by a CIA employee -- was discovered a year after it happened, when the information was published by WikiLeaks, in March 2017. The anti-secrecy group dubbed the release "Vault 7," and U.S. officials have said it was the biggest...

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Bruce Schneier

Date tagged:

06/18/2020, 10:07

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06/18/2020, 07:34