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Tag: Cellebrite

Court evidence shows FBI accessed Signal texts on locked iPhone

Wednesday, February 10, 2021 2:03 pm4 Comments

Court documents obtained by Forbes indicate the FBI has a way of accessing Signal texts even if they’re behind the lockscreen of an iPhone …

Cellebrite pitches governments iPhone spy tools for coronavirus contact tracing

Tuesday, April 28, 2020 4:06 pm4 Comments

Makers of smartphone hacking tools are pitching, and in some cases already working with, governments on iPhone spy tools for coronavirus contact tracing …

Scottish police video shows Cellebrite device unlocking smartphone

Monday, January 20, 2020 1:45 pmMonday, January 20, 20206 Comments

Police Scotland has posted a video showing a Cellebrite device unlocking an Apple iPhone and accessing data found on the device…

Cellebrite moves into computers with acquisition of BlackBag Technologies

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 3:54 pm1 Comment

Cellebrite, a provider of forensic solutions for law enforcement, government, and enterprise agencies, announced today it will acquire BlackBag Technologies…

Cellebrite claims its new software can crack Apple iPhones and iPads running up to iOS 12.3

Monday, June 17, 2019 11:25 amMonday, June 17, 20195 Comments

Israeli forensics company Cellebrite – which has gained a reputation for unlocking mobile devices like the iPhone…


Australia plans law for tech firms to hand over encrypted private data or face millions in fines, jail time for execs

Tuesday, August 14, 2018 12:02 pmTuesday, August 14, 201816 Comments

Australia on Tuesday proposed a new law requiring technology firms…

Fired FBI director James Comey reveals how Apple’s encryption efforts drove him crazy

Monday, April 16, 2018 12:03 pmMonday, April 16, 201820 Comments

Fired FBI director James Comey writes about President Trump while also addressing other aspects of his career…

Cellebrite: We keep iPhone exploits secret for the public’s safety

Thursday, March 1, 2018 4:44 pmThursday, March 1, 201818 Comments

Earlier this week, Forbes learned that Israel-based U.S. government contractor Cellebrite was touting…

The U.S. government can now (probably) unlock every iPhone model in existence

Monday, February 26, 2018 2:01 pmMonday, February 26, 201857 Comments

In what appears to be a major breakthrough for law enforcement…

iCloud changes put Apple on collision course with overreaching governments

Thursday, July 20, 2017 2:44 pmThursday, July 20, 201711 Comments

Apple has consistently argued against laws that would require tech companies to build so-called ‘back doors’ into their software…

Apple flies in top executives to lobby Australia’s Turnbull government on encryption laws

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 5:17 pm10 Comments

Apple’s top privacy executives have flown out to Australia twice in the past month…

Apple meeting with Australian government to discuss proposed encryption ‘back doors’

Tuesday, July 18, 2017 2:33 pmTuesday, July 18, 201732 Comments

Attorney-General George Brandis will meet with global tech-giant Apple this week…

President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey who called for iPhone backdoor

Tuesday, May 9, 2017 6:46 pmTuesday, May 9, 2017110 Comments

President Trump has fired the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey…

After U.S. gov’t refuses to declassify sum paid for FBI’s San Bernardino iPhone hack, Senator Dianne Feinstein inadvertently reveals it

Monday, May 8, 2017 12:00 pmMonday, May 8, 201712 Comments

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate committee that oversees the FBI, said publicly this week that the government paid $900,000 to break into the locked iPhone…

FBI’s James Comey: ‘There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America’

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 4:01 pmWednesday, March 8, 2017103 Comments

All of us have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our homes, in our cars, and in our devices. But…

FBI Director James Comey cancels SXSW 2017 appearance

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 5:35 pmTuesday, March 7, 201735 Comments

FBI Director James Comey will be unable to attend SXSW due to “scheduling conflicts” that…

News organizations ask judge to force FBI to reveal how much it paid to unlock San Bernadino Islamic terrorist’s iPhone

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 2:44 pmTuesday, February 21, 20179 Comments

Last year, the battle between Apple and the FBI dominated headlines…

Proving Apple’s assertion that there are no good backdoors, hacker dumps iOS cracking tools allegedly stolen from Cellebrite

Thursday, February 2, 2017 3:55 pmThursday, February 2, 201710 Comments

The hacker responsible has publicly released a cache of files allegedly stolen from Cellebrite…

A hacker just proved that Apple was right to worry about creating a backdoor to the iPhone

Friday, January 13, 2017 10:25 am21 Comments

Last year, when the F.B.I procured a court order forcing Apple to unlock an iPhone belonging…

What Apple got right but Amazon is getting wrong

Wednesday, January 4, 2017 1:55 pmWednesday, January 4, 201716 Comments

Law and technology frequently operate at cross purposes….

FBI wants to get into locked Apple iPhone of Minnesota Islamic terrorist Dahir Adan

Friday, October 7, 2016 11:00 am21 Comments

When the FBI asked a court to force Apple to help crack the encrypted iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter…

British PM Theresa May launches thinly veiled attacks on Apple and Facebook

Wednesday, October 5, 2016 10:55 amWednesday, October 5, 201638 Comments

Theresa May launched a thinly veiled attack on Apple and Facebook…

After calling for less security in Apple iPhone case, feckless FBI calls for more security as two state voter databases hacked

Tuesday, August 30, 2016 3:00 pmTuesday, August 30, 201613 Comments

The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases…

FBI Director Comey calls for national talk over encryption vs. safety

Monday, August 8, 2016 3:25 pmMonday, August 8, 201640 Comments

The FBI’s director said Friday the agency is collecting data to present next year in hopes…

FBI paid under $1 million for iPhone hack; doesn’t know how it works

Friday, April 29, 2016 10:55 amFriday, April 29, 20168 Comments

The FBI paid under $1 million for the technique used to unlock the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters…

FBI plans to keep Apple iPhone 5c-hacking method secret

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 8:46 pm11 Comments

The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn’t plan to tell Apple Inc. how it cracked a terrorist’s phone…

FBI’s Comey says agency paid more than $1 million to access San Bernadino iPhone

Thursday, April 21, 2016 4:50 pmThursday, April 21, 201619 Comments

FBI Director James Comey hinted at an event in London on Thursday that the FBI paid more than $1 million…

Apple refused China access to source code

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 5:41 pm16 Comments

Apple has refused demands by China to hand over source code, the company’s attorney said…

Data from San Bernardino phone has helped in probe, U.S. law enforcement officials claim

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 5:00 pm30 Comments

Hacking the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone has produced data the FBI didn’t have before and has helped…

Apple, FBI return to Congress to spar over encryption

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 2:15 pm6 Comments

Apple has been asked by Chinese authorities within the last two years to hand over its source code but refused to do so…

John McAfee: Professional hackers did not unlock Islamic terrorist’s iPhone, Cellebrite helped the FBI

Monday, April 18, 2016 9:57 amMonday, April 18, 20164 Comments

Now that the FBI has cracked into the San Bernardino iPhone, a new debate has been raised over who helped them…

FBI requests warrant to unlock iPhone 5c connected to California murder investigation

Thursday, April 14, 2016 5:40 pm12 Comments

The FBI plans to work with its own San Diego Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory to obtain data from a seized iPhone 5c…

Nothing significant found on San Bernardino’s terrorist’s iPhone

Thursday, April 14, 2016 10:34 am24 Comments

Investigators spent months trying to gain access to data on the locked iPhone used by San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook…

Apple won’t sue FBI to reveal hack used to unlock Islamic terrorist’s iPhone

Friday, April 8, 2016 4:50 pmFriday, April 8, 20169 Comments

Apple will not pursue legal action against the US government to discover how federal agents broke into an iPhone…

U.S. government to continue effort to force Apple to unlock iPhone in Brooklyn

Friday, April 8, 2016 1:28 pmFriday, April 8, 201612 Comments

The U.S. Justice Department on Friday said it will move ahead with an appeal of a court ruling…

Roots of Apple-FBI standoff reach back to 2008 child sex abuse case

Thursday, April 7, 2016 3:28 pmThursday, April 7, 20166 Comments

The roots of the current standoff between Apple Inc. and the Federal Bureau of Investigation reach back to 2008…

FBI director confirms hack only works on older iPhones that lack Apple’s Secure Enclave

Thursday, April 7, 2016 10:20 amThursday, April 7, 20169 Comments

FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday that the government had purchased…

FBI briefs U.S. Senators on how San Bernardino iPhone was hacked

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 7:29 pm29 Comments

The FBI isn’t keeping its new iPhone attack secret from everyone…

U.S. government’s multi-million dollar mobile forensics shopping spree revealed

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 10:25 amWednesday, April 6, 20169 Comments

The FBI, the DOJ, and numerous other U.S. government agencies have been buying mobile forensics and smart phone hacking tools…

FBI keeping mum on what it found on government-issued iPhone of San Bernardino terrorist

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 9:57 amWednesday, April 6, 201619 Comments

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is still analyzing data on the iPhone used by a San Bernardino, Calif…

Apple confident they’ll find and patch iPhone hack purchased by FBI

Monday, April 4, 2016 12:58 pmMonday, April 4, 201613 Comments

The FBI’s method for breaking into a locked iPhone 5c is unlikely to stay secret for long…

FBI vs. Apple: ‘Unduly burdensome’

Monday, April 4, 2016 9:27 amMonday, April 4, 201622 Comments

You might well be asking yourself, if the FBI withdrew its challenge against Apple, then why…

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