Cellebrite, the company that is believed to have been hired by the FBI and successfully unlocked the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone 5c, says that it is “optimistic” that it will also be able to access a locked iPhone 6. Earlier this year, Italian architect Leonardo Fabbretti met with the company last week to see whether […]
Category: security
As useful as Adobe’s Flash Player tends to be, this is sort of a mess. Less than a month after a critical Flash vulnerability allowed an attacker to take control of a Mac, Adobe has issued an emergency update for yet another critical flaw, bringing the current version to 21.0.0.213. The latest one is already […]
The tool the FBI bought to crack the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone 5c can only be used on an iPhone 5c running iOS 9. According to FBI director James Comey, the tool will not work on the iPhone 5s or 6 series, a statement Comey offered during a speech late Wednesday at Kenyon College. The […]
The good news is that the FBI was able to unlock the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone 5c. The bad news is that it might not be a treasure trove of information. According to a recent report, despite having had access to all the data on the phone for more than a week, the FBI has […]
A Siri-based vulnerability that allowed access to a user’s photos and contacts under the right conditions under iOS 9.3.1 has been patched server-side by Apple. Shared recently by Jose Rodriguez, the vulnerability used Siri’s ability to access Twitter to find an email link or phone number, which could be pressed to open up an editable […]