A 19-year-old hacks an iPhone, gets hired by Apple, and ends up fired for not replying to an email

A teenage hacker who exposed a major iPhone flaw briefly joined Apple’s security team, only to lose his job after less than a year.
WFTV

iPhone hack: How did the FBI do it; is your iPhone at risk?

On Wednesday, FBI Director James Comey told a group at Kenyon College in Ohio that the U.S. government had purchased "a tool" from a private party in order to unlock an iPhone used by a man who shot ...
Cryptopolitan on MSN

FBI warns iPhone users to avoid iMessage after encryption breach

The FBI and other US agencies warn iPhone users to stop sending texts via iMessage due to encryption vulnerabilities.
Cult of Mac

Hacker May Have Found Unlock For iPhone 3GS

George Hotz is one of the leading iPhone hackers. Hacker George Hotz appears to have found a way to jailbreak and unlock the iPhone 3GS. The 19-year-old Hotz, better known as GeoHot, may have found a ...
Digital Trends

You can hack almost any iPhone with just $100 worth of electronics

The FBI made headlines when it paid security contractors an estimated $1.3 million to unlock an iPhone 5C last year, but as it turns out, bypassing the security on Apple’s top-of-the-line headset ...
The Atlantic

Apple Fired Its Resident iPhone Hacker for Not Answering an Email

After a little over a year of working in the belly of the Apple beast, the infamous wunderkind iPhone hacker known as Comex, a.k.a. Nicholas Allegra, is "no longer associated with Apple," he announced ...
The Daily Dot

‘Y’all are taking screenshots the wrong way’: Woman shares what the Apple on back of iPhones is really for—it’s not just for design

A woman has been sharing Apple iPhone hacks over the past few days—the latest reveals that the Apple logo behind the phone isn’t just for show. TikTok user rhyanmadeit (@rhyanmadeit) went viral after ...