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iOS 7 iCloud Activation Lock Has Been Bypassed

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh07yeTGSPkeLpQJ_a32bgKz40up1N5zwB2p3AN7luwe20zTCz1T9OprjhYJpNmeFUt7wLIIW_x_eFhr40hh2KaIZ5KXVMxifLsC_HXJSNV8t1J0-Eq0IH0elICkY0EItBWHZPZOIZdpeI/s1600/Apple-Logo11.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh07yeTGSPkeLpQJ_a32bgKz40up1N5zwB2p3AN7luwe20zTCz1T9OprjhYJpNmeFUt7wLIIW_x_eFhr40hh2KaIZ5KXVMxifLsC_HXJSNV8t1J0-Eq0IH0elICkY0EItBWHZPZOIZdpeI/s320/Apple-Logo11.png" /></a>Reports coming in from The Netherlands have claimed that a Dutch-Moroccan hacking firm known as Doluci have successfully cracked into Apple's iCloud infrastructure, allowing them to unlock iPhones that would otherwise be completely blocked by Apple. Now given that there is a 400,000 strong user base of iCloud, this is a particularly worrying revelation. Apple's iCloud infrastructure has never been breached in this way before and this could have significant repercussions. There are almost half a million iCloud users and this service is full of private information and data. Doluci are apparently on a quest to unlock ill-obainted iPhones and according to reports, some 30,000 devices have been unlocked in the past couple of days. Apple devices are very lucrative and Apple introduced a system that was meant to keep prying eyes out and if your iPhone was stolen or obtained illegally, the only way to restore or use the device again was if the correct Apple ID password was keyed in. If these claims from The Netherlands are true, they will make a mockery of Apple's anti-theft measures and iCloud's security credentials too. This really is a massive deal and one of the main reasons why so many people tend to stick with traditional hard drives instead of using the cloud is because they have reservations about security and privacy. This Dutch team has successfully managed to get into the service and it makes you wonder whether this will have an effect on cloud services in general and not just in relation to Apple. The team of hackers is said to have intercepted the communication between the device and iCloud using an intermediary, with apps falsely led to believe that the spoofing tool in question is a genuine Apple server. From here, the activation apparatus can be meddled with, allowing devices to be unlocked. One security expert also believes that this could also be used to read messages and intercept personal data. Apple has yet to respond to this issue publicly but we are sure a statement is on the way. What do you think of this? Will it make you more aware of using cloud services?

iOS 7 iCloud Activation Lock Has Been Bypassed

Reports coming in from The Netherlands have claimed that a Dutch-Moroccan hacking firm known as Doluci have successfully cracked into Apple...

Hacker Runs Unsigned Code on iOS Thanks To Security Vulnerability

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNZ3VJmyOUtME-1HtCQF6eee5ewA5cqySSSVzNaTpgaGEUm4pT_ZfXE4eQCETCg20O-2EInE4M9IKTDRqVn3msOOcf-C9uuIhO1jzhK5aj2YdxlupYejfpWStGV3gRBg3GOyIhkov7s_M/s1600/ios_5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNZ3VJmyOUtME-1HtCQF6eee5ewA5cqySSSVzNaTpgaGEUm4pT_ZfXE4eQCETCg20O-2EInE4M9IKTDRqVn3msOOcf-C9uuIhO1jzhK5aj2YdxlupYejfpWStGV3gRBg3GOyIhkov7s_M/s320/ios_5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Apple, as you know, has always been very proud of the way the iPhone handles security but a hacker has found a major iPhone security vulnerability that allows unsigned code to run on iOS. Forbes has reported that security researcher Charlie Miller has released a video that shows one of Apple�s iPhones executing unsigned code. In simple terms, he has made the iPhone do things that Apple never authorized. What Miller did was make a simple stock checker app that he had approved with the App Store. Running this app in the normal way doesn�t do anything that it shouldn�t, but when Miller activates something on a server the app accesses he get access to the iPhone remotely and is able to launch apps, make the iPhone vibrate, browse the iPhone�s file system and even download the contents of the address book. This type of flaw could create a lot of nightmares for people. Apple has since removed the app from the App Store and Miller has not released information on how this hack works. He is giving Apple the chance to plug the hole in iOS 5.0.1. He did however; state that the flaw is part of Nitro, a JavaScript engine added in iOS 4.3. This information in the wrong hands could means that malicious users could get an app through Apple�s review process and then systematically steal data from people�s iPhones worldwide. Apple is working hard on their iOS 5.0.1 release where they are hoping to solve the current battery issues and we are sure they will be working on this security issue too. Charlie Miller has released a video showing what he was able to achieve so if you want to know exactly what this security vulnerability could mean take a look below. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ynTtuwQYNmk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Hacker Runs Unsigned Code on iOS Thanks To Security Vulnerability

Apple, as you know, has always been very proud of the way the iPhone handles security but a hacker has found a major iPhone security vulnera...