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March 29th, 2016 
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DOJ Recovers Data from San Bernardino Shooter’s iPhone (Possibly with Help of Israeli Company)
March 28th, 2016
Possible explanation of how they did it: NAND “Mirroring” Concept Demonstration tl;dr There are clever tricks to allow unrestricted brute forcing of the password, no crack or cryptographic signatures necessary.
Israel’s Cellebrite Linked to FBI’s iPhone Hack Attempt:
An Israeli cybersecurity firm is under pressure to reveal its involvement in efforts to extract data from an iPhone.
The FBI said on Monday that it might have found a way to deal with the password lock set by killer Syed Rizwan Farook, who was behind an attack in San Bernardino, California, in December.
An Israeli newspaper has since reported that data forensics experts at Cellebrite are involved in the case.
Cellebrite told the BBC that it works with the FBI but would not say more.
Its website, however, states that one of its tools can extract and decode data from the iPhone 5C – the model in question – among other locked handsets. Apple has refused to help the FBI do this.
“File system extractions, decoding and analysis can be performed on locked iOS devices with a simple or complex passcode,” Cellebrite’s site states.
“Simple passcodes will be recovered during the physical extraction process and enable access to emails and keychain passwords.
“If a complex password is set on the device, physical extraction can be performed without access to emails and keychain.”
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Via: CNBC:
The Justice Department said Monday it has accessed data on the iPhone used by a shooter in last year’s San Bernardino, California, attacks and no longer needs Apple (AAPL)’s help in cracking it.
The DOJ asked a California judge to drop an order requiring the tech giant to help the FBI unlock the phone. The government sought data as part of the investigation into the attack, which left 14 people dead.
“Our decision to conclude the litigation was based solely on the fact that, with the recent assistance of a third party, we are now able to unlock that iPhone without compromising any information on the phone,” said U.S. Attorney Eileen Decker in a statement.
The DOJ’s action comes after weeks of wrangling with Apple that ignited fierce rhetoric about the limits of privacy and data security. Apple and others in the tech community said they feared the order would set a dangerous precedent, while officials previously noted they wanted help to unlock only the phone in question.
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