Last week there were multiple reports that Petah Tekvah, Israel based Cellebrite could unlock any iPhone up to and including the iPhone X running the most current version of the Apple OS, but you had to send the phone to them along with a check for $1,500, per phone. This week there is a report […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here’s something you don’t hear every day. Cellebrite, a cell phone hacking vendor based in Petah Tikvah, Israel, claims that they can unlock any iPhone ever made, including the iPhone X running iOS 11.2.6 . Cellebrite, who offers their services to the highest bidder – mostly law enforcement and governments, both ones that have a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It usually doesn’t take very long. Whether it is fooling the fingerprint reader or jailbreaking an iPhone, it often comes within hours of a new device or software release. Maybe, in this case, it says that Apple did good because it took a week to break Face ID. On the other hand, it only took […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Multiple sources are reporting a feature of iPhone apps that is a major privacy concern. This is not new and it also is an issue on Android phones, but, for some reason, everyone seems to be highlighting the problem with iPhones. PERHAPS, that is because it it is being exploited in the wild on iPhones […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A report presented this month at the 2017 Usenix Workshop on Offensive Technologies was pretty offensive – and not in the way they meant in the workshop title. Offensive security is what spies do – go out and attack a system. The report demonstrated a proof of concept attack that would work if someone took […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The BankBot trojan is managing to keep Google Engineers on their toes. The trojan sits, literally, on top of existing banking apps and captures your user name and password. The initial target was Russian banks. Then it was “improved” to include UK, Austria, Germany and Turkey. Who knows what the next version will target. The […]
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