The hottest news in the United States this week is the attempted assassination of presidential candidate Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13. Trump was only injured in the ear but one attendee died. Days after the incident, the FBI announced they had successfully accessed the contents of the smartphone used by the shooter.
The Washington Post reported that the FBI initially failed to access the contents of the Samsung smartphone used by Thomas Matthew Crooks. But the Cellbrite company provided the FBI with a new software update that allowed the undisclosed model of the phone's encryption system to be bypassed within 40 minutes. The FBI is still looking for the motive behind the attack on Donald Trump.
In the terrorist incident in San Bernadino in 2015, Cellebrite technology was used to access the contents of the attacker's iPhone 5C phone. The incident gained widespread coverage because Apple refused to help the FBI bypass the iPhone's encryption system on the grounds of owner privacy.