{"id":197137,"date":"2017-02-03T10:29:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T08:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=197137"},"modified":"2017-02-03T10:31:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T08:31:16","slug":"hacker-posts-iphone-hacking-tools-fbi-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/197137-hacker-posts-iphone-hacking-tools-fbi-used.html","title":{"rendered":"Hacker posts iPhone hacking tools &#8220;FBI used&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The person who claimed responsibility for hacking mobile forensics company Cellebrite has posted cracking tools for older smartphones online, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/hacker-dumps-ios-cracking-tools-allegedly-stolen-from-cellebrite\" target=\"_blank\">Motherboard reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Cellebrite is the company the FBI\u00a0turned to when <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/155526-apple-refuses-to-build-iphone-backdoor-for-the-fbi.html\">Apple refused to create\u00a0a backdoor<\/a><\/strong> for the agency to use on an iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI wanted Apple to create a version of iOS that would allow it to &#8220;brute force&#8221; the security code of an\u00a0iPhone recovered in the investigation of the\u00a0San Bernardino terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>Apple warned that creating a version of iOS with a back door would set a dangerous precedent and weaken the security of its devices.<\/p>\n<p>The hacker told Motherboard they released cracking tools stolen from Cellebrite that\u00a0target older iPhones, and Android and BlackBerry devices.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/156527-apple-working-on-an-iphone-which-is-near-impossible-to-hack.html\">Apple working on an iPhone which is near impossible to hack<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The person who claimed responsibility for hacking mobile forensics company Cellebrite has posted cracking tools online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":180278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[605,41057,39184,691],"class_list":["post-197137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-apple","tag-cellebrite","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation-fbi","tag-ios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197147,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197137\/revisions\/197147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}