For devices on the iOS platform, there are several ways to choose a secret PIN-code, but still, these methods involved hardware devices to press the touch screen without user interaction. Now, there are a method of selection for USB-cable, which is much more convenient.
Independent developer Mad Alfhaili released a free utility to hack the iPhone and iPad with jailbreak. A program called TransLock uses brute force technique, similar to that used by experts from the British MDSec .
In general, the brute force of PIN-codes on the iPhone is only effective if the device is disabled "Clear data" in the settings, which deletes the information after ten attempts to enter the wrong.
However, attempts to enter the counter is reset when restarting iPhone. TransLock software solution can expect a reboot for 40 seconds - and then try a new combination. With such breaks through all four-digit combinations will take 111 hours, that is, four and a half days.But for longer periods of PIN-codes already on the rise: 5 digits - 1.5 months, 6 figures - 1.25 years, 7 digits - 12.5 years, 8 digits - 125 years.
The most effective sequence of actions an attacker is: to find out the real PIN-code by analyzing the state of the coating of the screen to manually enter the nine most popular passwords in the list, restart your phone and run a brute force TransLock for other passwords.
Mad Alfhaili posted the source code of its TransLock repository on GitHub . In the near future, he plans to release a compiled version. We, on the other hand, is advised to use more complex passwords for iPhone and iPad with jailbreak.