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U.S. Eyes New Way to Unlock iPhone

The gov’t may have found a way to unlock the iPhone in question without the help of Apple.
Feds say they were contacted by a third party that claimed they could unlock the phone.
The unnamed group is not another US intelligence agency, but most likely, speculating, a group of hackers.
“We will not shrink from this responsibility,” said Mr. Cook, “We need to decide as a nation how much power the government should have over our data and over our privacy.”
“Given that the prosecutors’ last-minute change of course appeared to mark a retreat for the government.”
Apple said that they could unlock the iPhone but that would call for new operating system and put millions of iPhones at the mercy of government intrusion.
The gov’t claims this is a special case because it deals with an act of terror but would set a dangerous precedent.
“Apple designed to make its products ‘warrant-proof.’”
“Apple has suggested the government bungled a key opportunity when investigators reset the device’s backup storage password.”

Hackers Monitored Bangladeshi Bank Report finds that the group breached up to 32 computers

As recently reported the group of hackers stole $100mm from the India’s bank account at the US Federal Reserve by exploiting SWIFT codes.
The hackers had been monitoring the bank’s transactions and activity before the theft took place.
They were able to gain access to the Bangladesh account by introducing malware into the bank’s server.
As well as the dangerous code the hackers also had planted key loggers into servers/computers to gain access to the necessary SWIFT codes.
The tactic of monitoring the activities of the bank allowed them to make transaction requests that did not see out of the ordinary to the Federal Reserve.