Watch this video to see how easy it is for police to crack your passcode and access all the private information on your iPhone.
Forbes has shared a video from Micro Systemation, a Stockholm, Sweden-based firm that sells law enforcement and military customers the tools to access the devices of criminal suspects or military detainees and siphon off their personal information.
XRY works much like the jailbreak hacks that allow users to remove the installation restrictions on their devices, Dickinson says, though he wouldn't say much about the exact security vulnerability that XRY exploits to gain access to the iPhone. He claims that the company doesn't use backdoor vulnerabilities in the devices created by the manufacturer, but rather seeks out security flaws in the phone's software just as jailbreakers do, one reason why half the company's 75 employees are devoted to research and development. "Every week a new phone comes out with a different operating sytems and we have to reverse engineer them," he says. "We're constantly chasing the market."
You can see how disturbingly insecure your iPhone is in the video below...
Read More [via Martin]
Forbes has shared a video from Micro Systemation, a Stockholm, Sweden-based firm that sells law enforcement and military customers the tools to access the devices of criminal suspects or military detainees and siphon off their personal information.
XRY works much like the jailbreak hacks that allow users to remove the installation restrictions on their devices, Dickinson says, though he wouldn't say much about the exact security vulnerability that XRY exploits to gain access to the iPhone. He claims that the company doesn't use backdoor vulnerabilities in the devices created by the manufacturer, but rather seeks out security flaws in the phone's software just as jailbreakers do, one reason why half the company's 75 employees are devoted to research and development. "Every week a new phone comes out with a different operating sytems and we have to reverse engineer them," he says. "We're constantly chasing the market."
You can see how disturbingly insecure your iPhone is in the video below...
Read More [via Martin]