Security News

Did the FBI engineer its iPhone encryption court showdown with Apple to force a precedent? Yes and no, say DoJ auditors
2018-04-01 00:00

Official report blows lid on behind-the-scenes Analysis On December 2, 2015 Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik attended his employer's holiday party in San Bernardino, California – and...

Unlocking iPhones with Dead People's Fingerprints
2018-03-30 11:11

It's routine for US police to unlock iPhones with the fingerprints of dead people. It seems only to work with recently dead people....

GreyKey iPhone Unlocker
2018-03-23 11:28

Some details about the iPhone unlocker from the US company Greyshift, with photos. Little is known about Grayshift or its sales model at this point. We don't know whether sales are limited to US...

Cellebrite Unlocks iPhones for the US Government
2018-02-27 11:58

Forbes reports that the Israeli company Cellebrite can probably unlock all iPhone models: Cellebrite, a Petah Tikva, Israel-based vendor that's become the U.S. government's company of choice when...

Phone-Cracking Firm Found a Way to Unlock Any iPhone Model
2018-02-27 07:18

Remember the infamous encryption fight between Apple and the FBI for unlocking an iPhone belonging to a terrorist behind the San Bernardino mass shooting that took place two years ago? After Apple...

Apple fixes that “1 character to crash your Mac and iPhone” bug
2018-02-20 13:08

Given the ease of copying and pasting the treacherous "crash character" into a message, Apple needed to get a patch out quickly.

A Single-Character Message Can Crash Any Apple iPhone, iPad Or Mac
2018-02-16 07:18

Only a single character can crash your iPhone and block access to the Messaging app in iOS as well as popular apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Outlook for iOS, and Gmail. First spotted by...

Apple's iBoot Source Code for iPhone Leaked on Github
2018-02-08 09:03

Apple source code for a core component of iPhone's operating system has purportedly been leaked on GitHub, that could allow hackers and researchers to discover currently unknown zero-day...

Apple Admits Deliberately Slowing Older iPhones — Here’s Why
2017-12-21 16:18

Why is my iPhone slow? Do you also ask this question again and again? Well, the biggest conspiracy theory floating around from years that Apple deliberately slows down performance on your older...

The tools criminals use to prepare a stolen iPhone for resale
2017-11-14 21:14

Reselling stolen mobile phones is a lucrative business all over the globe, and iPhones are very much in demand. Whether lost or stolen, the iPhones are often locked by their legitimate owners via...