CIA hacking Q&A: Is your TV spying on you and your phone listening in?

The leaked documents by Wikileaks suggest the CIA has a catalogue of 'zero-day' vulnerabilities

 

WikiLeaks has released thousands of documents that appear to show how the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is able to spy on smartphones, computers and other internet-connected devices. They apparently have the ability to break into any Android and iPhone smartphone, as well as devices running Windows, Mac OS or Linux operating systems. Though the leak doesn’t tell us how widely these techniques are used, it does highlight just how vulnerable the technology on which we increasingly rely is to security breaches.

How can the CIA hack these devices?

The leaked documents suggest the