Monday, September 1, 2014

Apple closed a vulnerability in iCloud, through which hackers stole intimate photos of Hollywood stars

On the Internet, on the night of September 1, there were intimate photos of celebrities - they have posted unknown hackers, hacking service iCloud. Candid Self stars such as Hollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence and Kirsten Dunst, model Kate Upton, TV star Kim Kardashian, singer Rihanna, Selena Gomez and Avril Lavigne and groom Hayden Panettiere Wladimir Klitschko, were laid out by the service users 4chan. According to The Next Web, Apple figured out how to "leaked" information to the cloud storage and correct this deficiency.
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After hackers posted on the Web candid shots of celebrities, people waited for the reaction Apple. And she followed. In the service of "Find My iPhone», which is part of the cloud service iCloud and through which hackers allegedly gained access to the personal information of the Hollywood stars, has changed how to work with passwords. Now, according to the source, the vulnerability is closed.
It was found that approximately one day before the scandal code for password guessing account Apple ID has been loaded into the repository GitHub . Hackers know your account username (in this role, as a rule, acts postal address), randomly sorting options could learn your password. Currently brudforsa method in the "Find My iPhone» does not work - after five failed password attempts service blocks work.
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Apple has declined to comment on the presence of gaps in the protection of data, which led to the disclosure of confidential data celebrities.
Recall that just a list of stars, intimate photos which were stolen from iCloud, there are about 100 names. And hackers promised for Bitcoins show in the near future more pictures of nude celebrities.
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