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Apple once again is drawing the line at breaking into a password-protected iPhone for a criminal investigation, refusing a request by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help unlock the iPhones of a shooter responsible for an attack in Florida. While Apple said it's helping in the FBI's investigation of the Pensacola shooting-refuting criticism to the contrary-the company said it won't help the FBI unlock two phones the agency said belonged to Alshamrani.
The FBI laid out new protocols Friday for how it conducts electronic surveillance in national security cases, responding to a Justice Department inspector general report that harshly criticized the bureau's handling of the Russia investigation. The filing comes one month after the chief judge of the surveillance court - in a rare public directive - ordered the FBI to say how it would correct shortcomings identified in the watchdog report on the bureau's investigation into ties between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
The FBI has asked Apple to help it unlock two iPhones that belonged to the murderer Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, who shot and killed three young US Navy students in a shooting spree at a Florida naval base last month. Yes, the FBI has tried the tactics it used when it was trying to unlock the iPhone of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook.
The FBI asked Apple this week to help extract data from iPhones that belonged to the Saudi aviation student who investigators say fatally shot three sailors at a U.S. naval base in Florida last month. Apple said in a statement that it has already provided investigators with all the relevant data held by the company.
The FBI has sent a letter to Apple asking for help in accessing encrypted data stored on two iPhones belonging to a deceased shooter. The FBI has told Apple that Alshamrani's devices are encrypted and that efforts to guess his passwords have been unsuccessful, NBC News reports.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is once again asking Apple to help unlock the iPhone of a potential terrorist. The statement does not indicate whether Apple will in fact assist in unlocking the phones, which the FBI said are being held in the crime lab at Quantico, Va. Deja-Vu Privacy Implications.
The FBI and local police are investigating how scammers posing as a contractor for a local bridge project tricked officials in a small Colorado town into electronically transferring over $1 million to a fraudulent account, according to the Denver Post. A Dec. 30 internal email sent by Malcolm Fleming, the town administrator for Erie, says that it appears the scam started when a fraudster completed an electronic form posted on the town's website requesting a change in how SEMA Construction, the primary contractor for a local bridge project, would receive payment for its work, according to the Post.
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