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Tag: CIA

U.S. Senators threaten Apple and Facebook with mandated encryption backdoors

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 4:00 pmTuesday, December 10, 20199 Comments

U.S. senators grilled Apple Inc and Facebook Inc executives over their encryption practices on Tuesday and threatened to regulate the technology unless…

FBI Director Christopher Wray continues pushing for encryption back doors

Tuesday, March 5, 2019 6:00 pmTuesday, March 5, 201910 Comments

The encryption war is quiet now, but the murky back-and-forth between…

Cellebrite, the Feds’ favorite iPhone hacking tool, is selling on ebay for $100 – and it’s leaking data

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 5:01 pmWednesday, February 27, 20193 Comments

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

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 11:00 amWednesday, February 27, 20195 Comments

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

Tuesday, December 11, 2018 1:32 pmWednesday, February 27, 20195 Comments

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

Friday, December 7, 2018 10:01 amFriday, December 7, 201818 Comments

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

Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:12 pm57 Comments

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’

Friday, October 12, 2018 5:37 pmFriday, October 12, 20188 Comments

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’

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 8:35 amWednesday, October 3, 20188 Comments

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

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

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

Monday, July 2, 2018 9:30 amMonday, July 2, 201821 Comments

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

Thursday, June 14, 2018 5:35 pmFriday, June 15, 20188 Comments

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

Friday, May 11, 2018 2:55 pmFriday, May 11, 20189 Comments

A new bill introduced in Congress gets encryption right…

Your iPhone’s six-digit pass code is no longer safe

Thursday, April 19, 2018 12:01 pmMonday, June 21, 202115 Comments

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

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…

Six U.S. intelligence agencies warn against using Chinese phones from Huawei

Wednesday, February 14, 2018 1:38 pmWednesday, February 14, 201831 Comments

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

Tuesday, February 13, 2018 11:56 amTuesday, February 13, 201862 Comments

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

Thursday, January 11, 2018 12:01 pm31 Comments

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’

Tuesday, January 9, 2018 5:00 pmTuesday, January 9, 201848 Comments

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is increasingly unable to access data from some electronic devices…

U.S. feds now want to search Apple Watch

Wednesday, August 2, 2017 9:46 amWednesday, August 2, 201745 Comments

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

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…

WikiLeaks reveals CIA’s secret software tools for infecting Microsoft’s Windows

Saturday, April 8, 2017 1:29 pm31 Comments

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

Friday, March 31, 2017 2:32 pmFriday, March 31, 201772 Comments

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

Friday, March 24, 2017 4:45 pmFriday, March 24, 20178 Comments

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’

Friday, March 24, 2017 10:43 am14 Comments

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

Thursday, March 23, 2017 5:00 pmThursday, March 23, 201723 Comments

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

Thursday, March 23, 2017 11:41 amThursday, March 23, 201732 Comments

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’

Tuesday, March 21, 2017 1:38 pm10 Comments

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

Saturday, March 11, 2017 11:34 am26 Comments

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

Thursday, March 9, 2017 3:01 pm7 Comments

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

Thursday, March 9, 2017 11:46 am11 Comments

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

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 4:35 pm8 Comments

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’

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…

Apple: Many of the iOS vulnerabilities in Wikileaks’ CIA data dump are already patched

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 9:56 amWednesday, March 8, 201729 Comments

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

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 11:11 amTuesday, March 7, 201741 Comments

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

Friday, December 9, 2016 4:46 pmFriday, December 9, 201628 Comments

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

Friday, November 18, 2016 3:15 pmFriday, November 18, 201673 Comments

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

Monday, September 19, 2016 3:32 pmMonday, September 19, 201612 Comments

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

Tuesday, September 6, 2016 11:01 amTuesday, September 6, 20167 Comments

Apple Inc., Google and Amazon.com Inc. were among the tech leaders that rallied behind Microsoft Corp…

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