Apple has promised to “rapidly address” any security holes used by the CIA to hack iPhones, following the release of a huge tranche of documents covering the intelligence agency’s stockpile of software vulnerabilities. A spokesman for the CIA said it would not comment “on the authenticity or content of purported intelligence documents” and the Trump administration spokesman Sean Spicer also declined comment. One page of the leak, which focuses on iOS exploits, shows the most recent version of iOS as 9.2. The CIA reports show the USG developing vulnerabilities in US products, then intentionally keeping the holes open. But it has always maintained the right to keep particularly critical vulnerabilities secret if they have “a clear national security or law enforcement” use.

Source: The Guardian March 08, 2017 10:43 UTC