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Cybersecurity

The FBI paid more than $1 million to hack the San Bernardino iPhone

April 22, 2016

Via: CIO

In the San Bernardino case, it turned out that the FBI didn’t actually need Apple’s help to access the data in shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone 5c. But if Apple had helped, it certainly would have been cheaper. Speaking at […]


Cybersecurity

FBI chief shoots down theory that NAND mirroring will be used to crack terrorist’s iPhone

March 25, 2016

Via: CIO

The head of the FBI today denied that the agency’s mysterious “outside party” had proposed digitally copying the contents of the processor in the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone as the solution to gaining access to the device’s data. “It doesn’t […]


Cybersecurity

DOJ knew of possible iPhone-cracking method before Apple case

March 24, 2016

Via: CIO

Weeks before the FBI sought a court order forcing Apple to help it break into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino gunmen, a sister agency in the Department of Justice was already using an Israeli security firm’s […]


Cybersecurity

FBI says it may have found a way to unlock shooter’s iPhone

March 22, 2016

Via: CIO

The FBI says it may have discovered a way to break into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino mass shooters, and an important court hearing in the case that was scheduled for Tuesday has been postponed. “On […]