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Apple 'Actively Investigating' Possible Hacking of Celebrity iCloud Accounts
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It is interesting that this leaked a week before Apple's event. Everyone is calling it an iCloud hack even though that's never been officially confirmed.
Definitely agree. I never use iCloud for my photos and can't see myself ever doing it.
In the case of these actors, unfortunately they may fall into the large realm of people who clearly don't fully understand how to use their phone (I, for the record, am not familiar with everything either so I'm not judging
But I've seen/heard of people who haven't even backed up their phones.As for Apple, I sure hope they find and fix what happened (if it was a breach and not as easily accessible as connecting someone to their accounts).
Cheers,
Keebler
Certainly not an excuse though. Don't celebs know the danger of taking explicit photos on a phone? Even if they weren't uploaded to the cloud, Touch ID can be bypassed and so can passcodes if the device is lost and not wiped in time.
Although, after looking at the script and playing around with it I highly doubt that's what even did it. I personally don't think these photos were taken from iCloud.
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Statistically the "brute force" script that only tested 500 passwords wouldn't have been able to work on all these accounts.
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Statistically the "brute force" script that only tested 500 passwords wouldn't have been able to work on all these accounts.
I have it set up on my outlook.com, Dropbox, and Facebook. I know Apple did have the 2 step verification activated a month or 2 ago for a few hours for iCloud.com, so I hope they do this soon for good.
No they're just doing their job for a change. Everybody else rushed this story out because nude celebrity pics generates lots of clicks and page views.
And quite frankly if your not a celebrity unknown hackers don't wants to hack your phone for possible nude shots.
Doubtful. The majority of people have absolutely no clue how their phone works, how security works, or what cloud storage actually does. They're given a vague, hand-wavy promise of "security" by companies like Apple that try to hide the workings of their systems from the user. Sometimes it's actually secure, sometimes it isn't. The public has no idea how to tell the difference and doesn't understand the risks.
That's very true, unfortunately. In a tech world, millions of people (from first world countries) continue clueless.
Hadn't heard of lougle before. Checked it out, and it had a whole series of ads/popups that were able to get around adblock+. And that was before I had even done anything.
Well, the problem is that the more open and complex a system, the harder it is to keep it secured. Door keys or alarm systems get bypassed too, yet people still trust them.
A Good faith effort is what is mostly required for companies and reparation of they are in some real damage occured (lost money).
Celebrity endorsements. Great PR for Apple and the new Photos app which will try to store every user's high-res photos.
Think someone has tried to attack Apple pre the big event next week.
Think they have missed the target by miles.
Absolute joy for Apple.
Think someone has tried to attack Apple pre the big event next week.
Think they have missed the target by miles.
Absolute joy for Apple.
Ahh, proves Apples services are as secure as Android then. If this is true it'll be all over the news and Apple will have a damaged reputation.
A brute force attack can solve passwords more complicated than "1234."
iCloud is taking deserved heat because it absolutely should not be possible to brute force on Apple's services.
Stop victim blaming.
Unfortunately Apple 2-factor authentication still only protects the appleid site. All other services, like icloud.com, restoring device backups etc. still only require the password.
Whether or not this incident turns out to be related to icloud, I sincerely hope that Apple *finally* enables 2-factor for all iCloud services, at least optionally. iCloud has way too much sensitive information and functionality (such as finding and wiping devices) to be protected only by a password. And in most cases it's a weak password, since complex ones are not really practical (since iOS forces us to enter it on mobile devices quite often).
And if next Tuesday's event does include a major mobile-commerce announcement, the breach will still be fresh enough in the minds of media, bloggers and consumers that they'll ask, "Can Apple be trusted with financial accounts?"
Has there ever been a hack of the credit cards that iTunes stores?
I'm starting to have my doubts about this being an iCloud exploit at all.
1. Some of the celebs have said they don't even use an iPhone
2. Doubtful celebs used one of the 500 passwords in the brute force script
3. Quite a few of the photos have proven to be from Android devices.
1. Some of the celebs have said they don't even use an iPhone
2. Doubtful celebs used one of the 500 passwords in the brute force script
3. Quite a few of the photos have proven to be from Android devices.
While everyone else stands in solidarity with JLaw, I'll stand in solidarity with Apple. #fanboysunite
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