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The method the FBI used to unlock the San Bernardino killer’s iPhone 5C does not work on newer models, FBI Director James Comey told a crowd of students on Wednesday night. In a Q&A following a keynote address at Kenyon College’s Expectation of Privacy conference in Gambier, Ohio, Comey spoke vaguely but clarified that the...
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the week in news, including how the FBI cracked that iPhone, the barrage of ransomware hitting hospitals, and the Hack the Pentagon bug bounty trial program announcement. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_-_April_1_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves
As Apple’s attorneys mull over their legal options for having the FBI explain how it hacked Syed Farook’s iPhone, a separate case playing out involving the security service and the anonymity software Tor may have a hand in predicting the outcome. According to a court filing earlier this week, the FBI is refusing to comply with a judge’s request...
A six-week public standoff between Apple and the FBI ended today when the Department of Justice said it had accessed encrypted data stored on the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone. The DOJ said in its motion that it no longer needed Apple’s help as mandated in a Feb. 16 court order and asked that the order...
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the week in news, including how the FBI vacated Tuesday’s Apple hearing, a crypto iMessage bug that was patched, and the latest hospital to be hit by the ransomware Locky. The two also preview Badlock and what, if any, implications this week’s announcement may have. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_March_25_2016.mp3 Music by Chris...
Threatpost Editor in Chief Mike Mimoso talks to crypto pioneer and security expert Bruce Schneier of Resilient Systems about the early days of the RSA Conference, the integration of privacy and security, and the current FBI-Apple debate over encryption and surveillance. [embedded content]
The FBI’s motion for a continuance in its case against Apple has opened a new avenue in this debate as to the identity and means by which the mystery “outside party” could unlock terrorist Syed Farook’s iPhone. Late yesterday afternoon, the FBI filed a motion to vacate a hearing scheduled for today in a Riverside,...
Security researchers are applauding the FBI and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for warning the auto industry that cars and trucks are vulnerable to internet-based attacks. But, they argue, more needs to be done by the government and car makers to protect drivers. Last week, in a joint public service announcement, the FBI and NHTSA...
Apple has matched the Department of Justice’s recent vitriol, by this week calling the FBI’s request for code to help it unlock Syed Farook’s iPhone unconstitutional. Furthermore, Apple in a court filing this week again challenged the validity of the government’s use of the All Writs Act of 1789 as justification in compelling Apple to...
Apple’s head of software engineering told law enforcement and the government via a Washington Post op-ed on Sunday that a precedent-setting backdoor into the iPhone threatens to turn back the clock on mobile security to less safe times. The column, written by Craig Federighi and posted last night, argues that the removal of security features...