For the First time, FBI discloses a Flaw to Apple, but it's already Patched!
Apr 27, 2016
In Brief The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) made its first disclosure about a software security flaw to Apple under the Vulnerability Equities Process (VEP), a White House initiative created in April 2014 for reviewing flaws and deciding which ones should be made public. Unfortunately, the vulnerability reported by the federal agency only affected older versions of Apple's iOS and OS X operating system and was patched nine months ago, with the release of iOS 9 for iPhones and Mac OS X El Capitan, according to Apple. The FBI informed Apple of a vulnerability in its iPhone and Mac software on April 14, but it's not the one used to unlock an iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, Reuters reported . But, Why didn't the FBI disclose the hack used to get data off the San Bernardino iPhone ? Well, the answer came from the FBI is not much complicated. According to the FBI Director James Comey, the FBI is still assessing whether the hack used to unlock Farook...
