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Cellebrite, the Feds’ favorite iPhone hacking tool, is selling on ebay for $100 – and it’s leaking data
hen eBay merchant Mr. Balaj was looking through a pile of hi-fi junk at an auction in the U.K…
FBI: End-to-end encryption like Apple’s ‘infects’ law enforcement
Nearly three years after the Federal Bureau of Investigation abandoned an effort to force Apple Inc…
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others denounce Australia’s ‘deeply flawed’ anti-encryption law
Apple, Google and Microsoft have denounced the Australian government’s decision to pass an anti-encryption law that…
Backdoors: Australia passes laws allowing spies and police to snoop on encrypted communications
Australia Thursday passed controversial laws allowing spies and police to snoop on the encrypted communications…
Apple to Australia: This is no time to weaken encryption; access only for ‘good guys’ is a false premise
Apple has filed its formal opposition to a new bill currently being proposed by the Australian government…
Apple urges Australian government not to destroy encryption with ‘backdoors’
Apple has submitted its formal response to a draft bill undergoing debate by the Australian government…
Apple, other tech giants denounce proposed Australian law seeking encryption ‘backdoor’
Four global tech giants – Facebook, Apple, Alphabet and Amazon – will oppose an Australian law…
Australia plans law for tech firms to hand over encrypted private data or face millions in fines, jail time for execs
Australia on Tuesday proposed a new law requiring technology firms…
More proof that iPhone backdoors are a stupid idea: Massive cache of law enforcement personnel data leaks
A data breach at a federally funded active shooter training center has exposed the personal data of thousands of US law enforcement officials…
Apple highlights user privacy as Facebook exec steps down
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook takes every opportunity to highlight his company’s commitment to privacy…
Bipartisan ‘Secure Data Act’ would make it illegal for U.S. government to demand backdoors
A new bill introduced in Congress gets encryption right…
Your iPhone’s six-digit pass code is no longer safe
iPhones protected by a six-digit pass code may no longer be safe thanks to a cheap tool…
Fired FBI director James Comey reveals how Apple’s encryption efforts drove him crazy
Fired FBI director James Comey writes about President Trump while also addressing other aspects of his career…
Six U.S. intelligence agencies warn against using Chinese phones from Huawei
All six indicated they would not recommend private citizens use products from the Chinese companies…
Bill Gates thinks Apple should unlock iPhones at the government’s request
In an interview with Axios, Bill Gates warned Apple and other tech giants that they risk the kind of nightmarish government…
FBI forensic expert blasts Apple ‘jerks’ for encrypting iPhones
Ever since Apple made encryption default on the iPhone, the FBI has been waging a war against encryption…
FBI Director Wray calls inability to access electronic devices an ‘urgent public safety issue’
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is increasingly unable to access data from some electronic devices…
U.S. feds now want to search Apple Watch
In at least one federal case, the government has sought to search an Apple Watch…
iCloud changes put Apple on collision course with overreaching governments
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
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’
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
President Trump has fired the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey…
WikiLeaks reveals CIA’s secret software tools for infecting Microsoft’s Windows
27 documents related to ‘Grasshopper,’ the codename for a set of software tools used to build customized malware for Windows PCs…
WikiLeaks says CIA disguised agency hacking as Russian activity
WikiLeaks has published hundreds more files today which it claims show the CIA went to great lengths to disguise…
Apple: Macs and iPhones are safe from CIA exploits revealed by WikiLeaks
Apple says that its preliminary assessments of the WikiLeaks documents released today…
Apple: No Wikileaks negotiations, Wikileaks calls Apple’s claim they’ve fixed all Dark Matter vulnerabilities ‘duplicitous’
Apple issued a strong statement on Friday after Wikileaks released a handful of documents about Central Intelligence Agency…
New WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 data dump shows the CIA’s Mac firmware attacks
The EFI is what orchestrates the entire boot sequence. If you change something before that…
New WikiLeaks Vault 7 ‘Dark Matter’ leak claims CIA bugs ‘factory fresh’ iPhones, infects Mac firmware
A new WikiLeaks Vault 7 leak, “Dark Matter,” claims that the United States of America’s Central Intelligence Agency…
WikiLeaks to give Apple, Google, others 90-day deadline to fix flaws revealed in ‘Vault 7’
WikiLeaks promise to give tech companies access to exploits in their systems before being made public…
What WikiLeaks’ CIA data dump tells us: Encryption works
If the tech industry is drawing one lesson from the latest WikiLeaks disclosures…
Julian Assange says WikiLeaks will share CIA hacking tools with tech companies
WikiLeaks will provide technology companies with exclusive access to CIA hacking tools…
Apple working to close remaining CIA exploits exposed by WikiLeaks, but difficulties remain
Just after 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning, mobile phones belonging to executives on Apple…
WikiLeaks raises prospect of teaming with tech giants, including Apple, to thwart CIA hacker-spies
The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks raised the prospect Wednesday of sharing sensitive details…
FBI’s James Comey: ‘There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America’
All of us have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our homes, in our cars, and in our devices. But…
Apple: Many of the iOS vulnerabilities in Wikileaks’ CIA data dump are already patched
Wikileaks today published a trove of documents, allegedly taken from the CIA..
WikiLeaks reveals CIA’s global covert hacking program targeting Apple iPhone, Google Android, Microsoft Windows and even Samsung TVs
Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency…
New Apple Report suggests governments everywhere are demanding customer data
Apple has published the latest edition of its biannual report on Government Information Requests…
President Trump’s attorney general pick Jeff Sessions could restart the encryption fight
After weeks of speculation, President-elect Donald Trump today named Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as his choice for attorney general…
Hardware hack bypasses iPhone passcode security
The work contradicts a claim made by the FBI earlier this year that this approach would not work….
Apple backs Microsoft in battle against U.S. government over ‘Sneak-and-Peek’ searches
Apple Inc., Google and Amazon.com Inc. were among the tech leaders that rallied behind Microsoft Corp…
Inept Microsoft demonstrates just how right Apple was to stand up to U.S. government overreach
I wrote an opinion piece predating the San Bernardino shootings on why Apple was right to stand firm…