It's been two days since Julian Assange promised Wikileaks would hand over more information on Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) hacker tools to tech giants. That pledge followed a leak of nearly 9,000 documents that Wikileaks claimed belonged to CIA hacking units. Google did not offer official comment, but two sources close to the company's security staff said there had been no contact. Apple, Google and Microsoft said many of the leaked CIA tools targeted older systems and that most were likely dealt with in past software updates. He noted that publishing spyware was nothing like publishing vulnerabilities, as cybercriminals and other kinds of malicious hackers will already have access to such tools.

Source: Forbes March 11, 2017 15:00 UTC