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Weve had the Chelsea Manning leaks, then came edward snowdon, and today another huge wikileaks data dump theyre calling it vault 7, and they say its from a division at the heart of the cia. Thousands of documents, millions of lines of code and, if it is all genuine, it shows the extraordinary array of hacking and spying tools available to the cia. Some of that wont be a surprise. Some of its colourful the ability to infect a samsung tv and turn it into a microphone that records conversations, fo...

Creating a safe working environment in the moving industry is important but comes with unique challenges.

Cybersecurity firm Volexity states that the malicious extension 'SharpTongue' is capable of stealing email content from Gmail and AOL

Researchers have come up with a novel method for digital fingerprinting that targets the GPU in a system. The method is able to track the location of the targeted users as well as their online activities better than any existing tracing technology.

Researchers have come up with a novel method for digital fingerprinting that targets the GPU in a system. The method is able to track the location of the targeted users as well as their online activities better than any existing tracing technology.

These early voting. people come, they meet, they discuss and then they state their preference. were going to interest folks participating by phone, and they stopped it because theyre saying of concerns about hackers getting into the system. whats the significance of this? >> look, were seeing two sides to this. on the one side youre seeing democrats looking for ways to activate more voters to make sure they are going to vote and participate in the presidential primary. at the same time the fact ...

Preposterous to say he was taking private jets said they were propeller engines. same difference. >> yeah. in other news, u.s. intelligence agencies released a report detailing russian cyber attacks against american infrastructure. it dates back many years. the dhs and fbi call this a multi-stage intrusion campaign by the russian government. it utilized a number of sophisticated hacking techniques to gain access or attempt to gain access to a number of sectors, including energy. when russia at...

Website when he was on the campaign trail. but its latest leaks are creating problems for his administration as we learn from cnns elise labott. >> reporter: after blowing the cover on the cias hacking techniques, wikileaks founder julian assange took a bow. >> the central intelligence agency lost control of its entire cyber weapons arsenal, what appears to be the largest arsenal of trojans and viruses in the world that attacks most of the systems that journalists, people in government, politici...

Defunct public relations firm has now taken several thousand dollars was linked to a turkish businessman. this poses conflict of interest questions. general flynn was not taking money from the trump campaign, but as you know, he was a close surrogate, he became a national security advisor, was advice he was going the trump campaign on areas like turkey to fight against isis, influencing any way by his connections with this firm and the work youre doing on behalf of it? this is another question t...

Lets bring in our global affairs correspondent elise lab it. what is the late est, elise? >> julian assange wants to give tech companies much more information about these cia hacking techniques before he releases that information to the public. these are tools wikileaks says the cia uses to break into servers, smart phones, and computers and tvs of americans. speaking from the ecuadorian embassy in london where hes been seeking asylum since 2012, assange said he is giving the info to the apples ...