CIA report reveals a lack of security measures in its operations and how it caused a leak of its hacking tools.
Security agencies worldwide are usually on the hunting side, tracking down their version of the “bad guys”. However, sometimes, they happen to be the prey too with a famous example being the Edward Snowden Leaks against the NSA back in 2013.
A similar incident of a lower magnitude occurred back in March 2017 with the CIA too when Wikileaks published a trove of 34 GB worth of sensitive files equivalent to 2.2 billion pages pertaining to different hacking tools and techniques naming it as “Vault 7.”
It happened to be the largest breach that the organization had suffered resulting in a shut down of certain key operations.
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Now, the leak is once again back in the news due to a report published on Tuesday along with a letter addressed to the director of National Intelligence by senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) which was prepared back then by the CIA’s WikiLeaks Task Force.
With it revealed, one can understand the underlying causes of what led to such an unauthorized disclosure attributing it to different reasons, all summed up under largely inadequate security measures.
To start with, Wyden describes the agency’s Centre for ..
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