Google has fixed many of the vulnerabilities in its Chrome and Android platforms identified in yesterday’s WikiLeaks dump of CIA documents, the company said today. In a statement provided to Recode by Heather Adkins —Google’s Director of Information Security and Privacy — Google said that it was “confident that security updates and protections in both Chrome and Android already shield users from many of these alleged vulnerabilities,” that its analysis of remaining security flaws was ongoing, and that it would “implement any further necessary protections.”

Adkins’ statement came a day after WikiLeaks released 8,761 documents and files it said that it obtained from the CIA’s Center for Cyber…

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