Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan is a woman with a colorful past and a bummer of a present.
She arrived this week in news stories with a string of criminal convictions, and gained notoriety for pleading "no contest" to felony identity theft early this year. Her...
How Armenian gangsters blew up the fingerprint-password debate
Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan is a woman with a colorful past and a bummer of a present.
She arrived this week in news stories with a string of criminal convictions, and gained notoriety for pleading "no contest" to felony identity theft early this year. Her...
The Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI has declined to share details with Apple regarding the method with which it broke into the infamous San Bernardino iPhone -- namely because it doesn't really know how it was done either. The FBI and Apple...
This was not a good week for the major corporations of the world. Volkswagen's diesel scandal has curbstomped its bottom line, Uber paid buku bucks to settle a pair of class-action lawsuits, Apple threw a bunch of money at a patent troll to make it g...
The feds might never let Apple in on the secret of the technique they used to unlock the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone 5c. According to Reuters, the hackers who discovered the flaw that led to the FBI's iPhone-cracking tool have the sole legal owne...
The FBI didn't commission an Israeli firm to unlock the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone 5c like previous reports said. According to The Washington Post, the agency cracked the iPhone's security system with help from a group of professional hackers wh...
Last week, the US Justice Department dropped its encryption case against Apple thanks to a helping hand from a "third party." With some help, the government said it was able to access the contents of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook's iPhone...
The White House is apparently refusing to publicly back a law that would force tech companies to comply with decryption requests. Reuters has spoken to anonymous sources inside the administration that claim there are deep divisions on the issue of vi...
The Department of Justice has dropped its case against Apple. After over a month of court motions, congressional hearings and public fights over circumventing the security of the iPhone 5C used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, the govern...
This afternoon the Department of Justice asked the courts to vacate tomorrow's hearing concerning the iPhone 5C in the custody of the FBI. The government had asked for Apple to help it circumvent the phone's security. But at the last minute, stated t...