The iCloud service of Apple is not cracked. That the company from Cupertino, california-after it was rumored that vulnerabilities in the service would be used to steal nude photos of celebrities. It comes to an attack with user names, passwords and security questions’.
However, confirms Apple that illegal access is obtained to the accounts of the affected persons. The perpetrators who were responsible for the theft of nude photos would be passwords and user names have been superseded by focus on the answer of security questions. This would be according to Apple have had access to the accounts.
The FBI has launched an investigation into the theft of the photos. Apple proposes to cooperate with the authorities in identifying the perpetrators. Theft of photos to prevent advises the company to two-stapsverificatie to use, allowing an attacker to also have access to a device such as a smartphone should get to log in.
Earlier this week on the website 4chan, nude photos published of a large number of celebrities. The photos would be covered by other of iCloud are obtained and because there about the same time messages to the outside came across a method to get passwords via brute force to find out, it was soon suggested that the photos in that way would have been captured.
Apple recommends users to enable two factor authentication to enable yourself against this kind of vulnerabilities to tackle. That opinion is striking: Last year discovered a beveiligingsonderzoeker that the protocol from Apple that is used for iCloud backup, no support for two factor authentication: an attacker, who would be backups so only a single password can recover it. There is even a tool on the market that automates.
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