apple's ios 12 update breaks iphone-cracking graykey forensic tool

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 01 39 PT.   Shifting the balance of the battle back Apple's, iOS 12 has disrupted one of the popular digital forensics tools, Grayshift's GrayKey...   GrayKey is unable to crack the passcodes of iPhones running the software, Forbes.   The possibility is a extraction, meaning the downloading of unencrypted files and metadata such as filesizes and folder structures..   GrayKey hardware uses form of brute forcing to run through iPhone passwords, and with iOS releases was somehow able to defeat Apple's safeguards against the tactic.   It's now in use with multiple countries, including U.S and U.K..   Apple and Grayshift have been engaged in never-ending race to defeat each technology.   In June for example Grayshift was quick to announce that it had already bypassed iOS USB Restricted Mode, once certain amount of time has elapsed, prevents devices from connecting to iPhone or iPad without user login..   Around the world, police and spy agencies have worried about communications going dark, arguing that full-disk and end-to-end encryption methods allowing terrorists and other criminals to operate outside their reach.   At Brussels on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook called security foundational to trust and all other privacy rights, and pushed for U.S law that would better anonymize collection and give people more control over their information...   Read more