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Hacker Steals 900 GB of Cellebrite Data (vice.com)
An anonymous reader shares a Motherboard report: Motherboard has obtained 900 GB of data related to Cellebrite, one of the most popular companies in the mobile phone hacking industry. The cache includes customer information, databases, and a vast amount of technical data regarding Cellebrite's products. The breach is the latest chapter in a growing trend of hackers taking matters into their own hands, and stealing information from companies that specialize in surveillance or hacking technologies. Cellebrite is an Israeli company whose main product, a typically laptop-sized device called the Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED), can rip data from thousands of different models of mobile phones. That data can include SMS messages, emails, call logs, and much more, as long as the UFED user is in physical possession of the phone.
Bad people suck.
2 sets of rules works for no one.
Why in holy hell do these companies continue to keep mission critical systems connected to the internet?
Millions of souls laughed and laughed at this breach, until they realized that the hack could contain their own data.
You could read the summary at least.
Please, read at least a good part of the summary before posting: it's talking about a company, not people
Too bad they didn't publish the data.
sudo rm -r -f --no-preserve-root /
This is a company who specializes in selling products whose purpose is to bypass built in protections in order to gain access to others data without permission.
Am curious how they feel when it happens to them.
Cellebrite was the company that "resolved" the issue for the FBI when they wanted access to a locked iPhone and Apple wouldn't help them by circumventing their own software.
So, enter Cellebrite and their cracking software to the rescue. The FBI then withdrew their request to Apple.
The whole thing was covered ad nauseam and, in my opinion, was largely a publicity stunt by Apple to showcase how secure their device is.
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
Israeli forensics software company owned by a Japanese console game development company? What kind of weird crap is that?
...Libraries of Congress is this?
They get the data and see the applications and attack vectors. Unless they provide software to counter this stuff there is nothing useful here.
One question, how long until pedantry kills you? I'll take your answer in seconds.
No, it was a publicity stunt by the FBI to hide the fact that they have had the ability to get into people's iPhones all along.
If you don't know who Cellebrite is, why are you here?
Your cracker jack box "geek" card has been revoked.
I want to mod you up for the Pentium Pro gold reference, but I just *can't*, I'm so sorry :(
I think it was a political stunt to try to soft-ban encryption solutions, by overtly forcing a very prominent privacy oriented company into unlocking their own crypto by pushing in a backdoored update. The end result would be that any company that didn't have a backdoor ready to go for any device or OS that it touched would look like it was standing in opposition to law enforcement, and that this would be considered a legal risk, and therefore, no one would continue making encryption easier and/or more reliable.
"a publicity stunt by Apple to showcase how secure their device is"
If they were trying to showcase their security they failed in spectacular fashion. Apples refusal to obey a court order was nothing more than a marketing ploy aimed at convincing the proles that they actually give a shit about privacy.
And going after or harassing an Israeli company is really not the smartest thing to do if you don't want to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to hide from their reprisal if they deem the offense against them requires a response. Israel is the only country on the planet who never asks for permission before they kick the shit out of whoever happens to be threatening them. They don't really give a shit about any political fallout either since they produce some of the best military technology on the planet and all the main foreign powers line up to buy it. US drone technology was built upon on Israeli technology. Israel provides the most advanced short range, mid-range, and ballistic anti-missile technology testing grounds. Any US funding given to Israel in this area is to guarantee access and allows Raytheon and other US military technology firms to partner with the Israeli firms.
Funny how you latch on to locker room talk and think it represents a person you don't like but ignore statements like:
"he's clean and articulate" by politicians you do like.
If you're scared of your govt then you need to further restrict its powers
Vote 3rd Party in 2016 and beyond
kdawson. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time...
Better than Apple being an authoritarian cock sucking bootlicker like you.
Ah yes the "But Bill Clinton!!!" comeback. "It's okay for someone on my team to do bad things if I can point out someone else doing something bad."
this article said nothing about decrypting more than likely a device thats kiosk like that can get the data off phones and now all that data is public at least thats how i read it.
Which of these two people was elected president and is now meeting with a french fascist?
The only reason they have been able to become a high tech and military industry powerhouse is thanks to the endless supply of money that keeps flowing in from the US. There are universities, tech, and medical campuses in Israel that are funded solely by US 'donations.' The entire country functions on favors and shady backroom deals. It is basically a nation equivalent of Hollywood.
Does Giuliani know about this?
It's not DNC so who cares..
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1) What's a "cellebrite"? 2) When are slashdot editors going to start using spellcheck to compensate for their dyslexia?
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This was almost certainly a state sponsored hack and not some kid in his basement. Russia or China or maybe Iran. I would actually bet Russia since selling security exploits and doing exactly what Cellebrite does is like their fastest growing industry. Probably a Russian "competitor" with an okay from the Kremlin since no Russian hacker would dare do anything without political cover first.
It's so rare to use the word 'cracking' when talking about bypassing cyber-security; thank you. Sometimes I can't blame the media, it's difficult to create a context for the word 'cracking', so the universal word, 'hacking' is used. Then again, sometimes I can: I noticed yesterday, a news show talked about Uber 'hacking' bank accounts: No, fraudulent EFTPOS withdrawals isn't hacking, or cracking an online service.
yees yeeees, the mighty russians under every stone ...
Almost all of the money the US has given to Israel over the years could only be used to purchase US military tech. The most recent deal with them is the first time they are allowed to spend a higher percentage on non-US weapons.
"The entire country functions on favors and shady backroom deals"
Can you name one other country on the planet who doesn't do the same thing?
The whole thing was covered ad nauseam and, in my opinion, was largely a publicity stunt by Apple to showcase how secure their device is.
And backfired because their device actually isn't secure at all.
Those responsible for hacking the people who have just been hacked have been hacked.
Better than Apple being an authoritarian cock sucking bootlicker like you.
In the end that's what happened anyway. Apple were proven to be liars and the whole time they didn't need to write a custom OS to be able to get access to the phone at all, that was all just a 100% bullshit tagline. Regardless of your position on this politically you'd have to have Apple's collective hand up your ass operating you like a puppet if you pretend like you can't see their bullshit.
Hacker Steals 900 GB of Cellebrite Data
Should read:
Hacker Copies 900 GB of Cellebrite Data
I'm pretty sure that Cellebrite still has the data.
Israel's budget is $70b, and they receive $3b in direct government aid from the US. That creates a whole bunch of weird incentives that pop up when a large amount of the money you spend doesn't come out of your own pocket. And I doubt that since the end of the Soviet Union, there is any other country that finances 5% of its operation through foreign aid. Even Venezuela currently only gets less than $100m a year total, and the Chinese probably aren't spending a lot of money on North Korea either although it's of course impossible to get real numbers there.
But Billy peed under his chair!!!
littlekids.
The majority of that $3B gets fed back into US military technology corporations. That $3B has also given the US some control over what Israeli military technology gets exported to countries such as Russia and China. The only real benefit Israel receives from the US is the US veto powers in the UN. However, Russia or China could provide the same veto powers if Israel decided to seriously downgrade ties with the US. While the US and Europe wring their hands over the Palestinians do you think the Russians or Chinese would let that issue stand in the way of luring Israel away from their relationship with the US?