Categories
Android Apple Apps Business Developer Google Hack Hacks Hardware iOS iOS 16 iOS 17 iPad iPad Air iPad mini iPad Pro iPadOS iPadOS 16 iPadOS 17 iPhone iPhone 12 iPhone 13 iPhone 14 iPhone 15 iPhone SE Legal News retail Retail Store security Software

Leaked documents indicate Cellebrite unlocking devices unable to crack certain model iPhones running iOS 17.4 or later

If you’re looking to unlock an iPhone, security firm Cellebrite may not be able to help you. A series of leaked documents claim that Cellebite software used by law enforcement agencies cannot unlock any more recent models than 2018’s iPhone XR if they’ve been updated to iOS 17.4. Cellebrite, which has always kept its iPhone […]

Categories
Apple Apple Watch Apple Watch SE Developer Face ID Hack Hardware HomePod mini iOS iPad News privacy security Touch ID Wearables

Apple provides background Secure Enclave updates to several older processors

This should come in handy. Apple has silently made changes to its A12, A13, and S5 system-on-chips to alter the Secure Enclave in Fall 2020, to include a second-generation model of the Secure Enclave. The changes were apparently part of an update and were noted as updates to the Apple Platform Security pages spotted by […]

Categories
iOS iPad iPhone News security

FBI director reveals that 6,900 devices have yet to be unlocked/decrypted

If you were looking to live in an era of digital privacy, it may have just arrived. According to a statement shared by FBI Director Christopher Wray at the International Association of Chiefs of Police on Sunday, the FBI has been unable to retrieve data from 6,900 mobile devices that it attempted to access over […]

Categories
Hack iPhone Legal News security

FBI not submitting San Bernadino iPhone hack for peer review

The FBI is keeping the San Bernadino iPhone hack technique to itself for the time being. A recent report has stated that the FBI will not be submitting the exploit used to break into the iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook to a review process that could clear it for sharing with […]

Categories
Hacks iOS iPhone Legal News security Software

FBI may have contacted “grey hat” hacker group along with Cellebrite to unlock San Bernadino iPhone 5c

The plot continues to thicken. A group of unnamed sources cited by the Washington Post contradict the widely-held belief that it was Israel-based mobile forensics company Cellebrite which helped the FBI hack into the locked San Bernardino iPhone. The report say that the agency was instead approached by a group of freelance hackers who revealed […]