How Secure are our Devices?
The CIA’s exploitation of vulnerabilities in Android phone use surfaced a few weeks ago via the collaborative site WikiLeaks, an online platform used to release highly confidential or censored information to the public. WikiLeaks claimed the CIA and other agencies have developed and qualified the capacity to bypass encryption and other security methods in popular messaging apps. In counter, Google has released a series of updates to its Android smartphone software to diminish the capacity of the government to obtain…