FBI unlocks iPhone without Apple
Last week we reported that the FBI thought that they may be able to unlock the infamous iPhone without the help of Apple. Apparently, they were approached by a third party who had a solution.
Announcements
Snoopers' charter update
The UK's now infamous "snoopers' charter" (officially the Investigatory Powers Bill) was debated in parliament recently and has proceeded to the committee stage.
Maybe the FBI can unlock the iPhone
Today Apple and the FBI were to face each other in court over Apple's refusal to provide a build of iOS to unlock a domestic terrorist's iPhone.
Android malware targets banking apps
A sophisticated new piece of android malware is targeting Android users of banking apps for the largest banks in Australia, New Zealand and Turkey.
Amazon backtracks on FireOS encryption
We posted a story on Friday about how Amazon has disabled device encryption on its FireOS devices. It was an optional feature that few used, but a very useful one - and those users kicked up quite a fuss.
Amazon disables FireOS encryption
While Apple battles the FBI over their demand for software to unlock an iPhone, Amazon has disabled encryption in its Fire devices. Any device running FireOS 5 or later will no longer support encryption.
SSL DROWN attack
There's a new SSL/TLS attack called DROWN (Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption).
Critical DNS security flaw found
A nasty bug has been found in the software that translates Internet computer names (hostnames) into numerical addresses that computers on a network can use (IP addresses).
Apple warns its customers about backdoors
Apple today released a letter to its customers that is extraordinary in its content, and strongly related to today's post about the UK's "snooper's charter"
CompleteFTP on Amazon EC2
Some of our customers may not be aware of how easy it is to run CompleteFTP on Amazon's EC2 cloud platform.