Tag: Going Dark
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Facebook paid for a 0-day to help FBI unmask child predator
Facebook paid a cybersecurity firm six figures to develop a zero-day in a Tor-reliant operating system in order to unmask a man who spent …
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U.S. officials say they’ve cracked Pensacola shooter’s iPhones, blast Apple
Federal law enforcement officials said Monday they had unlocked the iPhones of the perpetrator of a December terrorist attack at a U.S. …
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iPhone Unlocking Tech GrayKey Went Up in Price Because Hacking iPhones Got Harder
Last year, iOS forensics firm Grayshift increased the price of one of its iPhone unlocking products because breaking into iPhones became …
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Senator asks Department of Justice if it can keep a lid on its software exploits
In recent years, Department of Justice agencies have quietly acquired and deployed hacking tools in support of their law enforcement …
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Tech giants say UK spy agency’s encryption proposal is threat to security and human rights
Written by Sean Lyngaas May 30, 2019 | CYBERSCOOP A proposal from a British spy agency to allow law enforcement access to encrypted …
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FBI exaggerated the number of phones it can’t unlock by up to 550 percent
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has repeatedly claimed that it was unable to access data on nearly 7,800 encrypted devices in fiscal …
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Government would be barred from mandating crypto backdoors under House bill
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers on Thursday reintroduced legislation that would bar the government from mandating “backdoors” — …
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