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Apple Pay security would “fundamentally diminish” with banks

08/15/201608/12/2016 Jennifer Goula

The company won’t budge despite pressure from Australian banks to add wallet apps to iPhones. Australian banks have been coming together to try to pressure Apple to include their products on iPhones. However, the American company has insisted that Apple Pay security would suffer if it were to add mobile wallets from the banks. The company is standing firm against the three banks. Apple has opted not to give the banks access to the NFC chip used by its own Apple Pay wallet. The three banks wanted iPhone users to…

FBI breaks through iPhone mobile security without Apple

03/30/201603/29/2016 Julie Campbell

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This has caused the U.S. Justice Department to drop the legal action it had been pursuing against Apple. The FBI has now reported that it has been successful in using a new mobile security cracking technique that enabled them to access the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, and it managed to achieve its goal without any assistance from Apple. Apple had been refusing to comply with a demand that it write code to break into the smartphone. In fact, the company had been fighting a court…

FBI may be able to crack iPhone mobile security without Apple’s help

03/23/201603/22/2016 Julie Campbell

The much-anticipated court hearing was brought to an abrupt halt as it may no longer be necessary. The FBI recently revealed that it may have come up with a method of breaking through the mobile security of an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terror attack shooters. This caused the Federal Bureau of Investigation to suddenly vacate the court hearing to force Apple to unlock the smartphone. It now looks as though Apple’s help may not be necessary in cracking the mobile security code on the iPhone. This…

New York iPhone mobile security drug case appealed by Justice Department

03/09/201603/08/2016 L. Green

The ruling that blocked the government from being able to access information in a locked smartphone is being appealed. The Justice Department called a recent mobile security ruling by a New York judge “an unprecedented limitation” on judicial authority and has now called for a Brooklyn federal court to overturn the decision that stopped officials from being able to force Apple to write code that would unlock an iPhone linked to a drug case. This appeal has been made following the decision laid down by U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein.…

Judge decides Apple can’t be forced into unlocking iPhone in drug case

03/03/201603/02/2016 John Montgallo

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The court’s decision came at a time when the FBI is trying to achieve the same thing for a San Bernardino shooter. U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein has stated that the U.S. Justice Department is not within its right in saying that Apple is required to go ahead with an iPhone unlocking in a drug case. This was an important ruling as it has arrived at a time in which Apple is required to do the same thing in another case. The judge in New York has said that Apple…