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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…

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…

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…

Apple shoots for the impossible: An unbreakable iPhone

Friday, April 1, 2016 8:40 pmFriday, April 1, 201629 Comments

Apple is pushing hard to make its phones more secure, but the quest for perfect security will never be met…

Inside the little-known Japanese firm helping the FBI crack Apple iPhones

Friday, April 1, 2016 9:58 amFriday, April 1, 20166 Comments

The little-known Japanese company at the center of a legal tussle between Apple Inc. and the U.S. government…

FBI tests technique’s ability to unlock more iPhone models, iOS versions

Friday, April 1, 2016 8:28 amFriday, April 1, 201613 Comments

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is testing the method used to crack a terrorist’s iPhone to see how many other versions of the device it could open…

ACLU: U.S. government forced Google and Apple to unlock 63 devices

Thursday, March 31, 2016 11:27 amThursday, March 31, 201616 Comments

The government insisted that its effort to force Apple to help break into an iPhone…

FBI agrees to unlock iPhone, iPod in Arkansas homicide case

Thursday, March 31, 2016 9:58 amThursday, March 31, 201611 Comments

The FBI agreed Wednesday to help an Arkansas prosecutor unlock an iPhone and iPod belonging…

FBI’s method of unlocking iPhone may never be revealed to Apple

Thursday, March 31, 2016 9:27 amThursday, March 31, 201619 Comments

The FBI may be allowed to withhold information about how it broke into an iPhone belonging to the county employing Islamic terrorist…

Who really won and lost in the Apple vs. FBI showdown

Wednesday, March 30, 2016 3:58 pmWednesday, March 30, 201619 Comments

One of the more compelling institutional cage-matches in the last few years…

Apple could use Brooklyn case to pursue details about FBI’s San Bernardino iPhone hack

Wednesday, March 30, 2016 8:37 am8 Comments

If the U.S. Department of Justice asks a New York court to force Apple Inc to unlock an iPhone…

Apple’s new challenge: Learning how the U.S. cracked terrorist’s iPhone

Tuesday, March 29, 2016 11:00 pm18 Comments

Now that the United States government has cracked open an iPhone that belonged to a gunman in the San Bernardino Islamic terrorism attack…

Did the FBI just unleash a hacker army on Apple?

Tuesday, March 29, 2016 4:27 pmTuesday, March 29, 201619 Comments

In the end, the FBI didn’t need Apple’s help to extract information from a dead terrorist’s iPhone…

Apple declares victory in battle with FBI, but the war continues

Tuesday, March 29, 2016 2:55 pmTuesday, March 29, 201612 Comments

Apple has declared victory in its battle against the FBI, after the government announced…

Apple vows to increase security as FBI claims to break into terrorist’s iPhone

Tuesday, March 29, 2016 10:28 am15 Comments

Apple has vowed to increase the security of its products after the FBI bypassed the security…

Here’s how much the FBI is paying Cellebrite for its iPhone hack

Friday, March 25, 2016 12:08 pmFriday, March 25, 201616 Comments

For the time being, Apple’s legal battle with the FBI appears to be on hold…

Meet Cellebrite, the Israeli company reportedly cracking iPhones for the FBI

Thursday, March 24, 2016 8:57 amThursday, March 24, 201615 Comments

On Monday, a much anticipated hearing in the case between Apple and the FBI over access to a dead terrorism suspect’s iPhone…

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