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Title: FBI reportedly bought exploit from hackers to access San Bernardino iPhone Post by: HCK on April 15, 2016, 04:05:12 pm FBI reportedly bought exploit from hackers to access San Bernardino iPhone
<article> <section class="page"> <p> The FBI reportedly paid professional hackers a one-time fee for a previously unknown vulnerability that allowed the agency to unlock the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter.</p><p> The exploit allowed the FBI to build a device capable of brute-forcing the iPhone’s PIN without triggering a security measure that would have wiped all of its data, the Washington Post reported (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-paid-professional-hackers-one-time-fee-to-crack-san-bernardino-iphone/2016/04/12/5397814a-00de-11e6-9d36-33d198ea26c5_story.html) Tuesday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.</p><p> The hackers who provided the exploit to the FBI find software vulnerabilities and sometimes sell them to the U.S. government, the newspaper reported.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3055976/security/fbi-reportedly-bought-exploit-from-hackers-to-access-san-bernardino-iphone.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: FBI reportedly bought exploit from hackers to access San Bernardino iPhone (http://www.macworld.com/article/3055976/security/fbi-reportedly-bought-exploit-from-hackers-to-access-san-bernardino-iphone.html#tk.rss_all) |