It's a small box that allows law enforcement officials to crack into an iPhone 6s or an iPhone X. Will it be useful in the next year?
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NYPD starts replacing Windows handsets with faster and more secure iPhone 7 and 7 Plus
Apple's still-popular iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are the new digital crime-fighting tools of the New York Police Department, replacing archaic Windows phones.
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NYPD’s 36,000 Windows Phones to be replaced with iPhones
Sources say the police department's IT head was the sole decider in picking up Microsoft's dying mobile platform in the first place.
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Toronto Police cut from 911 system due to technical difficulties
In the telecommunications world, it's been a painful week for emergency services access. TPS is off the grid while medics and fire take its 911 calls.
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iMessage logs the numbers you contact, Apple may send them to police
The words you say and the content you send via iMessage is encrypted from end-to-end. But police can still request Apple to see who you sent all those messages to.The Intercept has obtained an internal document that reveals how the company logs phone numbers every time you start a new conversation in what’s now officially known as the Messages app.Once you type a number in, iMessages riles through Apple’s servers to figure if it should convey messages through SMS or through Apple’s ...
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Canadian police stingrayed BlackBerry phones in mobster case
A judge has lifted a press embargo has on court records that tell how the Royal Canadian Mounted Police cracked into encrypted BlackBerry communications. The methods were used in the investigation of a member of a New York mafia who was fatally shot in the outskirts of Montreal in 2011.The RCMP used “stingrays” — fake cell towers — to pick up on IMSI numbers, identifying the mobile subscribers that connected with it. Other information, like location, text and voice conversations, can also be extracted. Police claim they were only used to sort out suspects’ phones, ...
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Off-beat: “This is the police, stop asking us for drugs”
Steve Notman is in plenty of trouble.First off, the repeat offender was caught on video allegedly selling meth in the city of Alliance, Ohio. Second, his phone has continued buzzing up with texts from customers. Third, he has poor taste in ringtones.All this we’re learning from the Alliance Police Department as it has put out a public plea on Facebook for people to stop ringing up Steve for your gram. Investigators are looking through the phone to see if they can arrest you.This story may have been a little more serious if we found out that it was all
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LAPD cracked open an iPhone 5s before the FBI made San Bernardino hack
Chalk another loss up for Apple. And the FBI.Around the same time that the agency ordered the iPhone manufacturer to assist in decrypting an iPhone 5c that belonged to a gunman in the San Bernardino shootings, Los Angeles police were able to source a “forensic cellphone expert” to crack into an iPhone 5s that belonged to the wife ...
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Two active homicide cases hindered by victims’ smartphone encryption
All NYPD officers to receive Windows Phones
Remember when Brazilian police snatched up a stolen Sony Xperia C5 Ultra demo unit? That was pretty cool. But what if police actually used smartphones in the line of duty instead of just seizing them? Police departments have been trying to push into the 21st century with their tactics and tools for … 15 years now. We haven’t reported much on the ...
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