Details on the Unlocking of the San Bernardino Terrorist’s iPhone

The Washington Post has published a long story on the unlocking of the San Bernardino Terrorists iPhone 5C in 2016. We all thought it was an Israeli company called Cellebrite. It was actually an Australian company called Azimuth Security. Azimuth specialized in finding significant vulnerabilities...

How the FBI Got Into the San Bernardino Shooter’s iPhone

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Backdoors are a security vulnerability

Last month, US Attorney General William Barr resurrected a government appeal to technology companies: Provide law enforcement with an infallible, “secure” method to access, unscramble, and read encrypted data stored on devices and sent across secure messaging services. Barr asked, in more accurat...

Texas Shooter’s Phone Encrypted

Government and law enforcement officials may soon reignite the debate over encryption after the FBI today revealed that the dead suspect in Sunday’s Texas church shooting was using an encrypted cellphone. FBI special agent Christopher Comb did not reveal what type of phone alleged shooter Devin...

Judge: FBI Doesn't Have to Reveal How It Unlocked iPhone Used by San Bernardino Terrorist

Remember the infamous encryption fight between the FBI and Apple for unlocking an iPhone belonging to terrorist Syed Farook behind the San Bernardino 2015 mass shooting that killed 14 people? The same Apple vs. FBI case where Apple refused to help feds access data on the locked iPhone and, later...

Apple Hires Crypto Innovator Jon Callas

Jon Callas, equal parts security entrepreneur and innovator, has been hired at Apple for what will be his third stint with the company. Callas left Silent Circle, a company he cofounded, in April after four years there. Silent Circle designs and produces secure communication platforms, including...

Motion Filed Asking FBI To Disclose Tor Browser Zero Day

Mozilla on Wednesday filed a motion with the U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Wa., asking the government to disclose a vulnerability it exploited in the Tor Browser and Firefox. The FBI used the zero-day to hack a child pornography site and de-anonymize users visiting the site using the Tor Browser...

For the First time, FBI discloses a Flaw to Apple, but it's already Patched!

In Brief The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI made its first disclosure about a software security flaw to Apple under the Vulnerability Equities Process VEP, a White House initiative created in April 2014 for reviewing flaws and deciding which ones should be made public. Unfortunately, the...

FBI paid Hacker $1.3 Million to Unlock San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone

In Brief Guess how much the FBI has paid an unknown grey-hat hacker to break into San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone? FBI Director James Comey hinted during an interview that the FBI spent more than $1.3 Million for breaking into the iPhone of a suspected terrorist and found nothing useful on it...

Report: Nothing useful found on San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone

The San Bernardino terrorist's iPhone that the Department of Justice DoJ and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI said was critical in their investigation has absolutely nothing useful on it, at least so far. Yes, the same iPhone that was subject of so much attention from the past few months...

Forensic Firm that Unlocked Terrorist's iPhone 5C is Close to Crack iPhone 6

The FBI didn't disclose the identity of the third-party company that helped them access the San Bernardino iPhone, but it has been widely believed that the Israeli mobile forensic firm Cellebrite was hired by the FBI to put an end to the Apple vs. FBI case. For those unfamiliar in the Apple vs. F...

In Keynote Comey Challenges Absolute Privacy

The method the FBI used to unlock the San Bernardino killer’s iPhone 5C does not work on newer models, FBI Director James Comey told a crowd of students on Wednesday night. In a Q&A following a keynote address at Kenyon College’s Expectation of Privacy conference in Gambier, Ohio, Comey spoke...

FBI claims its iPhone Hacking Tool can't Unlock iPhone 5S, 6S and 6S Plus

Although everyone, including Apple, was worried about the iPhone hacking tool used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI to access data on iPhone belonged to the San Bernardino shooter, the FBI director said the hack does not work on an iPhone 5S or later. FBI Director James Comey said...

Just One? No, FBI to Unlock More iPhones with its Secret Technique

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI worked with Israeli mobile forensic firm Cellebrite to unlock iPhone used in the San Bernardino shooting last year, confirmed by multiple sources familiar with the matter. The United States Department of Justice DoJ said on Tuesday that the FBI successfully...

Apple, Google Faced All Writs Act Orders

The American Civil Liberties Union has dug up more proof that from the get-go the FBI’s attempt to crack open an iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook was not just about the one phone. The ACLU found court documents and on Wednesday published an interactive map visualizing...

FBI Has Successfully Unlocked Terrorist's iPhone Without Apple's Help

End of Apple vs. FBI. At least for now, when the FBI has unlocked iPhone successfully. Yes, you heard it right. The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has unlocked dead terrorist's iPhone 5C involved in the San Bernardino shooting without the help of Apple. After weeks of arguments, the United...

FBI Breaks into Terrorist's Encrypted iPhone

A six-week public standoff between Apple and the FBI ended today when the Department of Justice said it had accessed encrypted data stored on the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone. The DOJ said in its motion that it no longer needed Apple’s help as mandated in a Feb. 16 court order and asked that...

Israeli Forensic Firm 'Cellebrite' is Helping FBI to Unlock Terrorist's iPhone

Meet the security company that is helping Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI in unlocking San Bernardino shooters’ iPhone: The Israeli mobile forensics firm Cellebrite. Yes, Cellebrite – the provider of mobile forensic software from Israel – is helping the FBI in its attempt to unlock iPhone 5C...

An iOS 0-day will lead to iCloud photos and videos in crack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

There is a bad news, the Johns Hopkins University's Matthew Green, a Professor in the iOS encryption system found a 0-day vulnerability, which could allow a skilled attacker to intercept and decipher iMessages on. However, the good news is that this vulnerability is hard to exploit. Green explain...

FBI may have found a New Way to Unlock Shooter's iPhone without Apple

There's more coming to the high-profile Apple vs. FBI case. The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI might not need Apple's assistance to unlock iPhone 5C that belonged to San Bernardino shooter, Syed Rizwan Farook. If you have followed the San Bernardino case closely, you probably know everything...