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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…

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…

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…

Apple to undercut GrayShift, Cellebrite tools for cracking iPhones

Wednesday, June 13, 2018 5:00 pmWednesday, June 13, 20187 Comments

Apple Inc said on Wednesday it will change its iPhone settings to undercut the most popular means…

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…

Apple’s iOS 11.4 update with ‘USB Restricted Mode’ may defeat GrayKey, Cellebrite forensic tools

Tuesday, May 8, 2018 1:30 pmTuesday, May 8, 20184 Comments

The iOS 11.4 beta contains a new feature called USB Restricted Mode, designed to defeat physical data access…

Social Engineering: Beware of ‘tech support’ scams

Friday, May 4, 2018 2:17 pm15 Comments

It begins with a simple phone call. A scratchy voice, often sounding distant and foreign…

GrayKey box can guess a six-digit iPhone password in 11 hours on average

Monday, April 16, 2018 5:36 pmMonday, April 16, 201825 Comments

Law enforcement agencies have a new iPhone cracking tool that works with all modern iPhones…

Police around the U.S. can now unlock iPhones

Thursday, April 12, 2018 2:44 pmThursday, April 12, 201830 Comments

Law enforcement agencies across the country have purchased GrayKey, a relatively cheap tool for bypassing the encryption on iPhones…

Law enforcement uses ‘GrayKey’ box to unlock iPhones

Friday, March 16, 2018 8:59 amFriday, March 16, 201820 Comments

In 2017, a company by the name of ‘Grayshift’ created a device called ‘GrayKey’ that successfully unlocked iPhones…

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…

Microsoft held back free fix that could’ve contained the devastating WannaCry Windows PC epidemic

Friday, May 19, 2017 4:49 pmFriday, May 19, 201734 Comments

Microsoft held back from distributing a free repair for old versions of its software that could have slowed last week’s devastating ransomware attack…

The Microsoft Tax: How to avoid the WannaCry virus if you’re slumming it with Windows on your Mac

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 11:01 amWednesday, May 17, 201716 Comments

The worm/virus combination could hit a Mac user with a Boot Camp partition or Windows virtual machines…

Microsoft faulted over massive ransomware cyberattack

Tuesday, May 16, 2017 3:57 pm22 Comments

There’s a blame game brewing over who’s responsible for the massive cyberattack…

North Korea thought to be behind worldwide cyber attack on Windows PCs

Monday, May 15, 2017 10:51 pmMonday, May 15, 201742 Comments

A hacking group linked to North Korea is thought to be behind the cyber attack…

Tim Cook’s refusal to create iPhone backdoor for FBI vindicated by ‘WannaCry’ ransomware attack on Windows PCs

Monday, May 15, 2017 3:00 pmMonday, May 15, 201723 Comments

The proliferation of the WannaCry ransomware last week unequivocally justifies Apple’s steadfast refusal to help the FBI…

The Microsoft Tax: Rapidly replicating Windows PC worm spreads as experts try to limit damage; Macintosh unaffected

Monday, May 15, 2017 10:55 amMonday, May 15, 201717 Comments

Employees booting up computers at work Monday could see red as they discover they’re victims…

The Microsoft Tax: Leaked NSA malware hijacks Windows PCs worldwide; Macintosh unaffected

Saturday, May 13, 2017 10:36 am50 Comments

In mid-April, an arsenal of powerful software tools apparently designed by the NSA…

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