Apple has stated that it will block law enforcement hacking tools in iOS 12.<\/p>\n
The company told Reuters<\/strong><\/a> that while it respects law enforcement agencies and the work they do, it must protect it customers against hackers.<\/p>\n Apple will do this by making\u00a0USB Restricted Mode functionality permanent in its next major iOS release. This is intended to block hacking tools made by\u00a0GrayShift<\/strong><\/a> and Cellebrite<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The company added that it had started working on USB Restricted Mode before it found out about the hacking tools being used by law enforcement.<\/p>\n It works by blocking USB data connections to an iOS device which has been locked for an hour or more – but allows the device to retain its wired charing capabilities.<\/p>\n This means that if a user locks their iPhone and it is taken from them, the window for it to be “hacked” will likely be closed by the time it reaches the relevant agency.<\/p>\n Apple has stated it will block law enforcement hacking tools in iOS 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":264439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[605,51351],"class_list":["post-264435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-apple","tag-ios-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264435"}],"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=264435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264479,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264435\/revisions\/264479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Every iPhone can likely be cracked \u2013 Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"