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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.
Good people swallow.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Because security has no ROI...
You could read the summary at least.
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?
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.
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.
Because security has no ROI...
You forgot the "until customers start going to your competitors because of your shitty security" part.
You can ask any cloud service provider about that.
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?
Bad people suck.
Good people swallow.
Sorry?? I thought good people just got screwed. I didn't realize they were actively involved in the process.
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?