iOS 4 Hardware Encryption Cracked By Forensics Firm
Russian digital forensics toolmaker Elcomsoft said that it's the first forensics company to have successfully cracked the data security scheme of the iPhone 4. What that means is that digital forensic investigators will be able to circumvent, in many cases, the hardware-based encryption introduced by Apple with iOS 4.
Elcomsoft, however, said that its related tool for cracking iPhone 4 encryption, released Monday, will only be made available to law enforcement agencies, intelligence agencies, and professional forensic investigators.
Interestingly, Elcomsoft's announcement parallels the release of new research that details iOS 4 data security protections. Security researchers Jean-Baptiste Bedrune and Jean Sigwald, who work at IT services company Sogeti, last week presented a paper at the Hack In The Box conference in Amsterdam that details security changes to iOS 4, as well as how to crack them. L33tdawg: All presentation materials from #HITB2011AMS is available for download here: http://conference.hitb.nl/hitbsecconf2011ams/materials/
