Apr 19 2021

Details on the Unlocking of the San Bernardino Terrorist’s iPhone

Category: Mobile SecurityDISC @ 9:20 am

The Washington Post has published a long story on the unlocking of the San Bernardino Terrorist’s iPhone 5C in 2016. We all thought it was an Israeli company called Cellebrite. It was actually an Australian company called Azimuth Security.

Azimuth specialized in finding significant vulnerabilities. Dowd, a former IBM X-Force researcher whom one peer called “the Mozart of exploit design,” had found one in open-source code from Mozilla that Apple used to permit accessories to be plugged into an iPhone’s lightning port, according to the person.

The iPhone Manual - Tips and Hacks: A complete user guide to getting the best out of your iPhone and iOS 14 by [Wallace Wang]

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