How cloud computing leaked private celebrity photos
September 2, 2014
Grazed from CBROnline. Author: Jimmy Nicholis.
Both businesses and consumers are increasingly reliant on services such as Apple’s iCloud, which has been implicated in the celebrity picture attack. Companies are now using it to store intellectual property as well as information about its customers, and this makes it a prime target for hackers.
For its part Apple has said it is investigating the issue, with iCloud under severe scrutiny on the basis of speculation from 4chan, the internet board where the story originated. Yet even now clues have surfaced over what has happened, which should also lead us to an appropriate response…
Is it a problem with iCloud?
Following the leak Apple quietly issued a security patch to protect its iCloud users from brute force attacks based on a Python script posted on GitHub, a public code repository, that seemingly avoided security features blocking multiple failed login attempts to the company’s Find My iPhone service. Speaking to the Next Web, a tech site, the author confirmed that it could have been used in the leakage of celebrity photos, although he had not seen any evidence that this was the case…
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