{"id":38721,"date":"2016-03-31T17:05:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T15:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=38721"},"modified":"2016-03-31T07:01:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T05:01:52","slug":"31-05-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=38721","title":{"rendered":"Israeli firm &#8216;helped FBI crack San Bernardino gunman&#8217;s cell phone without Apple&#8217;s help&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/m-online.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"50%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3514875\/Israeli-firm-helped-FBI-crack-San-Bernardino-gunman-s-cellphone-without-Apple-s-help.html\" target=\"_blank\">Israeli firm &#8216;helped FBI crack San Bernardino gunman&#8217;s cell phone without Apple&#8217;s help&#8217; <\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> DAILY MAIL ONLINE REPORTER<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Israel&#8217;s Cellebrite is a provider of mobile forensic software<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Does business with thousands of law enforcement and intelligence agencies, militaries and governments in more than 90 countries<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>An official source told NBC News that the company had helped<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The FBI hacked into the iPhone used by gunman Syed Farook, who died with his wife in a gun battle with police after they killed 14 people<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>See more on the Apple case against the FBI at www.dailymail.co.uk\/apple<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">An Israeli company helped the FBI in unlocking the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California shooters, according to reports.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Israel&#8217;s Cellebrite, is a provider of mobile forensic software that says it does business with thousands of law enforcement and intelligence agencies, militaries and governments in more than 90 countries.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> An official source told NBC News that the company had helped. Neither the FBI nor Cellebrite has confirmed the reports.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> The FBI hacked into the iPhone used by gunman Syed Farook, who died with his wife in a gun battle with police after they killed 14 people in December in San Bernardino.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> The iPhone, issued to Farook by his employer, the county health department, was found in a vehicle the day after the shooting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"blkBorder img-share aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2016\/03\/29\/00\/2F2C4EA900000578-3513095-image-a-18_1459207077598.jpg\" alt=\"An Israeli company may have helped the FBI in unlocking the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California shooters. Syed Farook and his wife (both pictured) died in a gun battle with police after killing 14 people and injuring 22 in California, in December\" width=\"95%\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>An Israeli company may have helped the FBI in unlocking the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California shooters. Syed Farook and his wife (both pictured) died in a gun battle with police after killing 14 people and injuring 22 in California, in December<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The FBI is reviewing information from the iPhone, and it is unclear whether anything useful can be found.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> A great deal of speculation centers on Cellebrite \u2014 an Israel-based forensics firm that says it does business with thousands of law enforcement and intelligence agencies, militaries and governments in more than 90 countries \u2014 though it remains one of several possible candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A company spokesman declined to comment last week.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Cellebrite, founded in 1999, is a subsidiary of Japan&#8217;s Sun Cor and has had contracts with the FBI dating back to at least 2013.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> The firm makes devices that allow law enforcement to extract and decode data such as contacts, pictures and text messages from more than 15,000 kinds of smartphones and other mobile devices.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> It also makes commercial products that companies can use to help their customers transfer data from old phones to new ones. Apple even uses Cellebrite devices in some of its stores.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Suncorp&#8217;s shares have more than doubled in the six weeks since Apple published its letter refusing to help the FBI, reports Fortune.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> The FBI&#8217;s announcement is a public setback for Apple, as consumers suddenly discover they can&#8217;t keep their most personal information safe and Apple remains in the dark about how to restore the security of its flagship product.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Apple software engineers \u2014 and outside experts \u2014 are puzzled about how the FBI broke the digital locks on the phone without Apple&#8217;s help. It also complicated Apple&#8217;s job repairing flaws that jeopardize its software.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"blkBorder img-share alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2016\/03\/28\/23\/326EFF4400000578-3513095-image-a-3_1459204582934.jpg\" alt=\"A court filing stated the government had 'successfully accessed the data stored on Farook's iPhone' without Apple's help but did not elaborate on how or what information it managed to recover\" width=\"60%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>A court filing stated the government had &#8216;successfully accessed the data stored on Farook&#8217;s iPhone&#8217; without Apple&#8217;s help but did not elaborate on how or what information it managed to recover<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Justice Department&#8217;s announcement that it was dropping a legal fight to compel Apple to help it access the phone also took away any obvious legal avenues Apple might have used to learn how the FBI did it.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym vacated her February 16 order, which compelled Apple to help the FBI hack their phone, on Tuesday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> The Justice Department declined through a spokeswoman to comment Tuesday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> A few clues have emerged. A senior law enforcement official told The Associated Press that the FBI managed to defeat an Apple security feature that threatened to delete the phone&#8217;s contents if the FBI failed to enter the correct passcode combination after 10 tries.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> That allowed the government to repeatedly and continuously test passcodes in what&#8217;s known as a brute-force attack until the right code is entered and the phone is unlocked.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> It wasn&#8217;t clear how the FBI dealt with a related Apple security feature that introduces increasing time delays between guesses. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because this person was not authorized to discuss the technique publicly.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> FBI Director James Comey has said with those features removed, the FBI could break into the phone in 26 minutes.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Apple said in a statement Monday that the legal case to force its cooperation &#8216;should never have been brought,&#8217; and it promised to increase the security of its products.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> CEO Tim Cook has said the Cupertino-based company is constantly trying to improve security for its users.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> The FBI&#8217;s announcement \u2014 even without revealing precise details \u2014 that it had hacked the iPhone was at odds with the government&#8217;s firm recommendations for nearly two decades that security researchers always work cooperatively and confidentially with software manufacturers before revealing that a product might be susceptible to hackers.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> The aim is to ensure that American consumers stay as safe online as possible and prevent premature disclosures that might damage a U.S. company or the economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"blkBorder img-share alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2016\/03\/22\/article-urn:publicid:ap.org:7508f029c3d94d1ab311278a158e1b9d-1zGVt7KEUB1f78e1a678e4181c5a-716_634x429.jpg\" alt=\"In a stunning reversal last week, federal prosecutors asked a judge to halt a much-anticipated hearing on their efforts to force Apple to unlock the phone, saying an 'outside party' had stepped forward to help\" width=\"50%\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>In a stunning reversal last week, federal prosecutors asked\u00a0a judge to halt a much-anticipated hearing on their efforts to\u00a0force Apple to unlock the phone, saying an &#8216;outside party&#8217;\u00a0had stepped forward to help<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">As far back as 2002, the Homeland Security Department ran a working group that included leading industry technology industry executives to advise the president on how to keep confidential discoveries by independent researchers that a company&#8217;s software could be hacked until it was already fixed.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Even now, the Commerce Department has been trying to fine-tune those rules. The next meeting of a conference on the subject is April 8 in Chicago and it&#8217;s unclear how the FBI&#8217;s behavior in the current case might influence the government&#8217;s fragile relationship with technology companies or researchers.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> The industry&#8217;s rules are not legally binding, but the government&#8217;s top intelligence agency said in 2014 that such vulnerabilities should be reported to companies.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> &#8216;When federal agencies discover a new vulnerability in commercial and open source software \u2014 a so-called &#8216;zero day&#8217; vulnerability because the developers of the vulnerable software have had zero days to fix it \u2014 it is in the national interest to responsibly disclose the vulnerability rather than to hold it for an investigative or intelligence purpose,&#8217; the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement in April 2014.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> The statement recommended generally divulging such flaws to manufacturers &#8216;unless there is a clear national security or law enforcement need.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Last week a team from Johns Hopkins University said they had found a security bug in Apple&#8217;s iMessage service that would allow hackers under certain circumstances to decrypt some text messages. The team reported its findings to Apple in November and published an academic paper after Apple fixed it.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> &#8216;That&#8217;s the way the research community handles the situation. And that&#8217;s appropriate,&#8217; said Susan Landau, professor of cybersecurity policy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She said it was acceptable for the government to find a way to unlock the phone but said it should reveal its method to Apple.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Mobile phones are frequently used to improve cybersecurity, for example, as a place to send a backup code to access a website or authenticate a user.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> The chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology, Joseph Lorenzo Hall, said keeping details secret about a flaw affecting millions of iPhone users &#8216;is exactly opposite the disclosure practices of the security research community. The FBI and Apple have a common goal here: to keep people safe and secure. 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