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With advancing technology, cops are also getting smarter — they are finding new methods to break into the iPhones of suspects in order to obtain information. Till now, cops and law enforcement agencies used hacking devices like GreyKey to get past the passcode and break open the device. However, Apple has found a workaround to […]
It seems that the cat and mouse chase between Apple and people who want to get access to iPhone is never going to end. Recently, the iPhone-maker announced a security feature to prevent unauthorized cracking of iPhones. When the device isn’t unlocked for an hour, the Lightning port can be used for nothing but charging. […]
Apple is currently testing iOS 11.4 beta update for iPhone and iPad devices. Apparently, the update aims at increasing the security of these devices and protecting them from physical threats. This means that it might become difficult or nearly impossible for the law enforcement agencies and third-party iPhone cracking firms like GrayShift and Cellebrite to crack iPhones and iPads as […]
GrayKey’s code snippets recently appeared online and an unknown party was responsible for the publishing. The iPhone unlocking specialist GrayShift is now being extorted for paying 2 bitcoin, the price of one GrayKey box, but it is believed that the extortionists might have run out of codes. GrayKey is a device developed by GrayShift and it […]
The mysterious piece of hardware GrayKey might give a sense of happiness to cops because they can get inside most of the iPhone models currently active, including the iPhone X. The $30,000 device is known to crack a 4-digit iPhone passcode in a matter of a few hours, and a six-digit passcode in 3 days, […]
Almost a month has passed since the security firm Malwarebytes leaked the images of the so-called iPhone unlocking hardware GrayKey Box – a boon for the security agencies. The company named GrayShift developed the black box. The device comes in $15,000 and $30,000 variants with the former being geofenced and having an unlocking count of […]
Until a couple of weeks ago, Cellebrite was one of the known few firms claiming to crack any iPhone device including iPhone X. But lately, a startup service GrayShift is making headlines for similar claims and states that cracking iPhone X and 8 is one of the core abilities of its GrayKey product. Now, the US Department of State’s […]
The debate whether law enforcement agencies should be given exclusive access to iOS-powered Apple devices started when the FBI was unable to unlock San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. Eventually, FBI found other ways to get inside Apple’s secured digital fortress, through an Israel-based company called Cellebrite. In the latest news, we have come across about a new […]