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U.S. Eyes New Way to Unlock iPhone
- The gov’t may have found a way to unlock the iPhone in question without the help of Apple.
- Feds say they were contacted by a third party that claimed they could unlock the phone.
- The unnamed group is not another US intelligence agency, but most likely, speculating, a group of hackers.
- “We will not shrink from this responsibility,” said Mr. Cook, “We need to decide as a nation how much power the government should have over our data and over our privacy.”
- “Given that the prosecutors’ last-minute change of course appeared to mark a retreat for the government.”
- Apple said that they could unlock the iPhone but that would call for new operating system and put millions of iPhones at the mercy of government intrusion.
- The gov’t claims this is a special case because it deals with an act of terror but would set a dangerous precedent.
- “Apple designed to make its products ‘warrant-proof.’”
- “Apple has suggested the government bungled a key opportunity when investigators reset the device’s backup storage password.”
Hackers Monitored Bangladeshi Bank Report finds that the group breached up to 32 computers
- As recently reported the group of hackers stole $100mm from the India’s bank account at the US Federal Reserve by exploiting SWIFT codes.
- The hackers had been monitoring the bank’s transactions and activity before the theft took place.
- They were able to gain access to the Bangladesh account by introducing malware into the bank’s server.
- As well as the dangerous code the hackers also had planted key loggers into servers/computers to gain access to the necessary SWIFT codes.
- The tactic of monitoring the activities of the bank allowed them to make transaction requests that did not see out of the ordinary to the Federal Reserve.