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iOS’ “iBoot” component leaked to GitHub, quickly pulled by Apple

Apple, and its legal department, do not like it when you leak source code for core components of iOS on GitHub. This is exactly what happened, as a chunk of source code, labeled “iBoot”, which is the part of iOS that is responsible for ensuring a trusted boot of the operating system, found its way […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Proposed bipartisan bill would prevent individual states from mandating backdoor access to encryption protocols

The plot may yet become even more intricate when it comes to states require backdoors into encryption. A bipartisan bill introduced to the U.S. House of Represenatives on Wednesday would bar individual states and localities from requiring backdoors in encryption, something often demanded by law enforcement officials and intelligence agencies. The ENCRYPT Act, sponsored Democrat […]

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Hackers unlock hidden panorama camera mode in iOS 5, post instructions on accessing it

It’s the hidden features that tend to make a gadget that much cooler. Per iDownloadBlog, a group of hackers have discovered a hidden panorama mode embedded within Apple’s Camera application on iOS 5, though the feature does not appear to be completed. iOS hacker Conrad Kramer, who goes by the alias Conradev, revealed via a […]