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Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2016
FBI breaks into San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone

The Department of Justice says the FBI has broken into the iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter, it no longer needs the help of Apple. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced it has broken into San Bernardino shooter‘s iPhone and it had accessed encrypted stored on the device. After a long battle between Apple and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2016
Israeli Cellebrite firm is helping FBI in cracking San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone

The Israeli Cellebrite firm is helping the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in unlocking San Bernardino shooters’ iPhone. In the last weeks, we have followed the case of the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone that a few days ago reached an unexpected conclusion, the FBI announced on Monday to have found a way to unlock the mobile device without […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2016
Man behind The Fappening case charged with hacking celebrity accounts

Pennsylvania man behind the Fappening case Charged with hacking Apple and Google e-Mail accounts belonging to more than 100 people. The culprit of the popular Fappening case may have a name, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday that it charged Ryan Collins, 36, of Pennsylvania for hacking Apple and Google E-Mail accounts […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2016
How to hack mobile phones embedded fingerprint sensor using 2D Printed fingerprints

Two Computer Science researchers developed a technique to hack a phone’s fingerprint sensor in 15 mins with $500 worth of inkjet printer and conductive ink The Computer Science researchers Kai Cao and Anil K Jain have developed a new technique for hacking a mobile device’s fingerprint sensor in 15 mins with $500 worth of an […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2016
Snowden FBI is lying, it can already unlock iPhone without Apple support

Snowden accuses the FBI of lying about his ability to unlock the iphone of the San Bernardino terrorist. “that’s horse sh*t.” he said. While the dispute between Apple and the FBI on the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone case continues, the popular NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden takes a position giving us his opinion, and it is not […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2016
How to bypass Apple Passcode in 9.1 and later

A number of bypass vulnerabilities still affect iOS devices and could be exploited by an attacker to bypass the passcode authorization screen. A number of bypass vulnerabilities still affect iOS devices and could be exploited by an attacker to bypass the passcode authorization screen on Apple mobile devices (iPhones and iPads) running iOS 9.0, 9.1, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2016
French Gov could fine Apple and Google €1m unless they hack mobile devices

French Gov is thinking a law that would impose fines of €1 million on Apple and Google if they refused providing access users’data. Governments worldwide continue to intensify their pressure on the IT giants requesting the access to users’ data in the name of security. The US Government wants Apple unlock its mobile devices to access data, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 20, 2016
San Bernardino shooter’s Apple ID passcode changed in government custody

While discussing the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, Apple executives said the password changed while it was under the government custody. The discussion about the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone has monopolized media in this week, a US magistrate ordered Apple to help unlock the mobile device, but the company refused to do so. A new shocking […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2016
US Judge requests Apple to unlock San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone

A US magistrate ordered Apple to help unlock San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, be aware it is demanding a tool to bypass the security mechanism. We discussed very often of the difficulties of the law enforcement in conducting investigations when suspects used devices that make use of encryption, the case that we are going to analyze is emblematic. Apple […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2015
Hackers win $1 million bounty for iOS 9 remote hack

A team of hackers has received a million-dollar payout for disclosing a iOS zero-day vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely hack any Phone. Bad news for the Apple users, a team of hackers have received a million-dollar payout for disclosing an iOS zero-day vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely hack any Phone […]