Apple iCloud security exploit is a concern, experts say
Source: BBC
Apple's iCloud facility, which stores iPhone and iPad users' photos and personal data, has a "fundamental security flaw", an expert has warned.
The online service is under scrutiny after intimate images of celebrities were stolen and leaked.
It has emerged that a security measure called two-step verification, which is recommended by Apple, can be bypassed using easily available software that allows access to iCloud back-ups.
Apple declined to comment.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29045789
dembotoz
(16,865 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Hosnon
(7,800 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)It's hard to get the settings off cellular and eats up my AT & T plan because Apple sends everything to the cloud. And then you get charged at cellular rates for the data. I shut off the 'cloud', shut off cellular and my useage still goes up! something when the phone sleeps it switches from wifi to cellular. I have to boot the phone off.
Something on the apps on the apple iphone keeps the apps turned on and sending data to their cloud. No wonder the cloud got "hacked". There are so many iphone apps, all connected to apples cloud!! and probably a bunch of apps easy to hack!!
I'm sorry I even got the apple iphone, it was a waste of a lot of money. I would never use it for any banking or payment transactions. I even disconnected it from my emails.
I would like a refund from Apple!! it's the least they can do.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Go to settings > Photos and Camera, and turn off My Photo Stream and Photo Sharing, if you want none of it in the cloud!
Then go to Videos and turn off "Show All Videos."
None of your pics or videos are in the cloud.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)http://valleywag.gawker.com/icloud-isnt-safe-because-everyones-a-target-and-apple-1629660564
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)I hear this all the time. People blame poor security on their choosing poor passwords, then when you enforce a password policy that includes numbers, caps, and special characters, the same people complain that their passwords are too difficult to remember.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)I don't think that it was Apple's fault that these people had simple passwords.
From what I have read, they were in the list of the 500 most frequently used passwords.
The only fault of Apple, was not limiting the number of retries that one gets to log on to iCloud.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)And yet, people continue to do such things anyway...
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Just another reason I will never, ever own an iDevice (or Android device, to calm the outrage of a few here).
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025273004
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Last edited Thu Sep 4, 2014, 12:20 PM - Edit history (1)
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He said he makes personal use of those features to keep tabs on his iPhone-using children.
"The forensic tools I've written for myself privately I use for parental monitoring where when I set the phone up I'll pair it with my desktop and then at any point in the future I can just easily scan the network, find my kids' devices and dump all their application data, see who they're talking to, and what their doing online," he explained. My kids have got to be the most miserable kids in the world with a forensics expert for a dad."
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/undocumented-ios-functions-allow-monitoring-of-personal-data-expert-says/