• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Apr-23-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on US no longer requires Apple’s help to crack iPhone in New York case

The U.S. no longer requires Apple’s assistance to unlock an iPhone 5s phone running iOS 7 used by the accused in a drug investigation, stating that an “individual provided the passcode to the iPhone at issue in this case.”
The Department […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Apr-22-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Facebook bug hunter stumbles on backdoor left by hackers

When Orange Tsai set out to participate in Facebook’s bug bounty program in February, he successfully managed to gain access to one of Facebook’s corporate servers. But once in, he realized that malicious hackers had beaten him to it.Tsai, a […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Apr-22-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Facebook bug hunter stumbles on backdoor left by hackers

When Orange Tsai set out to participate in Facebook’s bug bounty program in February, he successfully managed to gain access to one of Facebook’s corporate servers. But once in, he realized that malicious hackers had beaten him to it.Tsai, a […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Apr-21-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on The FBI paid more than $1 million to hack the San Bernardino iPhone

In the San Bernardino case, it turned out that the FBI didn’t actually need Apple’s help to access the data in shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone 5c. But if Apple had helped, it certainly would have been cheaper.
Speaking at a […]