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  A new study says the iPhone isn't as locked down as it could be for the sake of user convenience — but there are steps that you can take to secure your data. Most important data today is encrypted at rest and end-to-end encrypted when being transferred, like with Apple's iMessage. This means most bad actors cannot get to your most precious data without first unlocking your device. This system prevents all but the most serious criminals and nation states from accessing your data, but there are flaws. Once a criminal has access to a flaw it can be exploited to gain access to sensitive dat...

Posted by Sanuj Bhatia on Dec 24, 2020 in Apple News, Hacks A new report by SecurePhones has highlighted a probable way of how police and other law enforcement authorities hack into someone’s iPhone. Despite Apple’s claim of the iPhone is a ‘secure’ phone, Matthew Green, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute has found an explanation about how law enforcement agencies break into convict’s iPhone. Matthew, on Twitter, revealed that the theory is based on the research done by him, along with two of his students. He’s written a 65-page report on the sa...

Green contends that law enforcement agencies no longer need to break the strongest encryption on an iPhone because not all types of user data are protected by it. The research was prompted by the fact that forensic companies reportedly no longer have the ability to break Apple's Secure Enclave Processor. That means it's very difficult to crack a iPhone's password. Given that law enforcement agencies continue to break into locked devices, Green and his students began researching how that could be possible. They came up with a possible answer, which Green said would be fully detailed in a repor...

  A group of cryptography experts have proposed a theory about how law enforcement can still break into iPhone despite continuous iOS patches and layers of safeguards — Apple's strongest encryption protects less data than it used to. Matthew Green, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, proposed the theory in a Twitter thread on Wednesday in response to news of the ACLU suing for information about iPhone unlocking methods. The theory is based on research from two of his students, Maximilian Zinkus and Tushar M. Jois. My students @maxzks and Tushar Jois spe...