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Motherboard berichtet reported on a box capable of cracking an iPhone’s PIN. The GrayKey itself is a small, 4×4 inches box with two lightning cables for connecting iPhones, according to photographs published by cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes. The device comes in two versions: a $15,000 one which requires online connectivity and allows 300 unlocks (or $50 per phone), and an offline, $30,000 version which can crack as many iPhones as the customer wants. Marketing material seen by Forbes says GrayKey can unlock devices running iterations of Apple’s latest mobile operating system iOS 11, including on the iPhone X, Apple’s most recent phone. ...

Hacking the Samsung Galaxy S8 Irisscanner → Mobile vendors have established fingerprints as a biometric feature to unlock smartphones. Now they turn to iris recognition, as do hackers. This video demonstrates how to circumvent the iris recognition of the Samsung Galaxy S8 flagship phone only using basic tools. The linked video clearly shows that you don’t need expensive hardware to bypass the iris scanner. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

I finally managed to read the book 1984 from George Orwell. I’m almost ashamed I only read it now, because it’s really good and still so relevant. It’s impressive how prophetic George Orwell already was in 1948. In many respects his theories are still applicable to today’s fear of constant surveillance. A really great story that everyone should read. “The old civilizations claimed to be founded on love or justice. Ours is founded on hatred.” — “1984” by George Orwell ...