Use password breaker to download data from iCloud storage backups
The major leak of nude celebrity photos last weekend was made possible by software designed to let law enforcement lift data from iPhones with ease. The software is used in tandem with a tool made public recently that can crack Apple iCloud passwords.
According to Wired, hackers talk openly on the anonymous image forum Anon-IB about their use of EPPB, or Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker, to download data from iCloud storage backups.
EPPB and like programs work to reverse engineer smartphone software to access a device’s data, but only with the aid of iBrute, the password-guessing software for iCloud. The iBrute software, recently released by security research Alexey Troshichev, was made to exploit a flaw in Apple’s ‘Find My iPhone’ feature to lift users’ iCloud passwords, running through numerous attempts to crack the account before eventual success.
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So is that police tool used by cops, or kops?
ReplyDeleteI can't understand why the idiots that use these gadgets and services feel that they are or ever have been private. Their uninformed actions just further instill in me how ignorant the public is with regard to how the internet, the electronics associated with it and cellular telephone service work. I have no pity for the fools. Let the hackers roll on. Perhaps one day the public will wake up and realize just how stupidly they have acted.
ReplyDeletethe FBI and the cops have been tracking you and stealing your data for years. They
ReplyDeleteuse fake cell phone towers to do it. It's true you now live in a police state.