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Justice Department unlocks San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone 5c through third party, drops case against Apple

The FBI finally unlocked the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone 5c, even without Apple’s help. The Justice Department announced yesterday that it was able to unlock San Bernadino shooter Syed Farook’s iPhone 5c and released the following statement: The government has now successfully accessed the data stored on Farook’s iPhone and therefore no longer requires the […]

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Feds claim they have means of unlocking San Bernadino iPhone, ask judge to delay Apple hearing until April 5th

The great iPhone Unlocking Controversy of 2016 may have an end in sight. The United States Justice Department today asked the court overseeing its ongoing iPhone unlocking battle with Apple to postpone a hearing scheduled to take place on Tuesday, March 22nd. The DoJ says new leads have been discovered that could provide it with […]

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Apple releases iOS 9.3 update

Amidst the kerfuffle of the March 21st media event, Apple also dropped the long-awaited iOS 9.3 update. The update, which weighs in around 310 megabytes, adds the following fixes and changes: – A fix for the iMessage encryption bug discovered by researchers at Johns Hopkins University. The exploit can lead to photos and videos sent […]

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KeRanger ransomware arrives on the Mac, Transmission 2.90 application infected

Ransomware has come to the Mac. Over the weekend, researcher at Palo Alto Networks stated that ransomeware, which encrypts data on infected machines, then typically asks users to pay ransoms in hard-to-trace digital currencies to get an electronic key so they can retrieve their data, has been found to be targeting the Mac OS X […]

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Husband of San Bernadino shooting survivor takes Apple’s side in iPhone encryption controversy

While a recent poll has suggested that the majority of Americans support the FBI and would have Apple decrypt the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone 5c, Apple apparently has the backing of the husband of one of the survivors of the terrorist attack, which left 14 people dead and 22 others seriously injured, after he changed […]