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The FBI couldn't find pictures of Superman in an old Comic book.
You don't think a couple of suits from Utah are up to the task do you?
:^)
Who can hack an iPhone for the FBI? Clues point to Cellebrite in Israel.
Who can hack an iPhone for the FBI? Clues point to Cellebrite in Israel.
Mashable - 3/25/16
You don't think a couple of suits from Utah are up to the task do you?
:^)
Who can hack an iPhone for the FBI? Clues point to Cellebrite in Israel.
Who can hack an iPhone for the FBI? Clues point to Cellebrite in Israel.
Mashable - 3/25/16
The FBI has been trying to hack into the iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter for months. But this week, when the Justice Department suddenly announced that a mysterious "outside party" was helping investigators access the data, security experts wondered who might be capable of cracking Apple's encryption.
Now, all eyes are on an Israeli cybersecurity company whose past connections and recent movements suggest it may be the FBI's white knight.
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonot reported Wednesday that the unidentified party is Cellebrite, based just outside Tel Aviv. But the FBI and Cellebrite have refused to confirm any relationship. And on Thursday, unnamed law enforcement officials speaking on background to USA Today squashed reports of a partnership.
Mashable has learned, however, that the company's executive vice president for mobile forensics, Leeor Ben-Peretz, spent the last few days in the United States. According to a person who recently worked with the company and who spoke on condition of anonymity, Ben-Peretz is Cellebrite's top executive who would demonstrate its forensics capabilities.
On Thursday evening, Ben-Peretz landed back at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport. He was surprised — and not very happy — to receive a phone call from me. "Did you demonstrate Cellebrite's capabilities to the FBI?" I asked.
"What I did in the U.S. is my own business," he replied. "I will not comment on this... I can’t add any more details on this issue."
Cellebrite co-CEO Yossi Carmil also declined to comment on Thursday.
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Now, all eyes are on an Israeli cybersecurity company whose past connections and recent movements suggest it may be the FBI's white knight.
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonot reported Wednesday that the unidentified party is Cellebrite, based just outside Tel Aviv. But the FBI and Cellebrite have refused to confirm any relationship. And on Thursday, unnamed law enforcement officials speaking on background to USA Today squashed reports of a partnership.
Mashable has learned, however, that the company's executive vice president for mobile forensics, Leeor Ben-Peretz, spent the last few days in the United States. According to a person who recently worked with the company and who spoke on condition of anonymity, Ben-Peretz is Cellebrite's top executive who would demonstrate its forensics capabilities.
On Thursday evening, Ben-Peretz landed back at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport. He was surprised — and not very happy — to receive a phone call from me. "Did you demonstrate Cellebrite's capabilities to the FBI?" I asked.
"What I did in the U.S. is my own business," he replied. "I will not comment on this... I can’t add any more details on this issue."
Cellebrite co-CEO Yossi Carmil also declined to comment on Thursday.
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