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Privacy and security have long-been one of the top selling points for iOS devices in the interminable marketing fracas between Apple and its competitors, with fancy additions to their suite of protection features like fingerprint scanning and facial recognition. Android devices, by contrast, always seemed to lag behind in the personal encryption space, but have caught up fairly recently in the consumer’s mind, at least.
The cat, as they say, is out of the bag thanks to researchers at Johns Hopkins University, who decided to test the mobile security systems of two of the biggest mobile device makers, Apple and Google. Their findings reveal that the layers of security protecting our data are only skin deep and that much of the encryption structures built into these devices remain unused. “I’ve come out of the project thinking almost nothing is protected,” Matthew Green, the professor who oversaw the study told
Delhi Police can break into locked iPhones and Android phones using special tools, says report
In India, Delhi Police is one of the law enforcement agencies that can access data from smartphones including iPhones using special tools.
Ankita Chakravarti | December 22, 2020 | Updated 14:39 IST
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Delhi Police is one of the law enforcement agencies that can access data from smartphones.
Delhi Police use tools from Israeli cybersecurity company Cellebrite such as UFED (Universal Forensic Extraction Device). The tools used by American agencies have proven to be far more effective than their Indian counterparts.
If you thought nobody can ever extract data from your locked smartphone, you are highly mistaken. In India, Delhi Police is one of the law enforcement agencies that can access data from smartphones including iPhones using special tools, a report has claimed. However, the tools are not always successful.
Exclusive: Delhi Police has tools to extract data from smartphones, including iPhones Credit: Aditi Agrawal
At least one law enforcement agency in India Delhi Police has the tools to extract data from locked smartphones, including iPhones. However, the effectiveness and success rate of such tools remains under question.
There has been amplereportage about how American law enforcement agencies break into smartphones, especially iPhones, but the capabilities of their Indian counterparts have remained shrouded in mystery. The intrigue intensified after revelations that controversial Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group’s spyware was used to target at least 121 Indian citizens.
Tools available to the Delhi Police include tools from Israeli cybersecurity company Cellebrite such as UFED (Universal Forensic Extraction Device) Ultimate and Physical Analyzer that were famously used by FTI Consulting to suggest that Saudi Arabian Prince Mohammed Bin Salman had hacked into Jeff
No, an Israeli company can t hack into Signal on your phone
Cellebrite said its product can crack the messaging app, but its technology is not groundbreaking according to experts
Grafitti urging people to use Signal, a highly encrypted messaging app, is spray-painted on a wall during a protest in Berkeley, California, 1 February 2017 (AFP) By Published date: 15 December 2020 17:06 UTC | Last update: 4 months ago
Journalists and human rights activists are not at risk of their phones being hacked while using Signal, despite Israeli intelligence company Cellebrite claiming it can crack the app, Middle East Eye has learned.
Signal is an encrypted end-to-end messaging app released in 2010 by Moxie Marlinspike, an American entrepreneur and cryptographer who worked for Google, Facebook and WhatsApp between 2012 and 2016, and implemented the Signal code into their services.