Security News > 2021 > April > Details on the Unlocking of the San Bernardino Terrorist’s iPhone
2021-04-19 11:08
The Washington Post has published a long story on the unlocking of the San Bernardino Terrorist's iPhone 5C in 2016.
We all thought it was an Israeli company called Cellebrite.
Azimuth specialized in finding significant vulnerabilities.
Dowd, a former IBM X-Force researcher whom one peer called "The Mozart of exploit design," had found one in open-source code from Mozilla that Apple used to permit accessories to be plugged into an iPhone's lightning port, according to the person.
Then he linked that to a final exploit that another Azimuth researcher had already created for iPhones, giving him full control over the phone's core processor the brains of the device.
Apple is suing various companies over this sort of thing.