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You mean like the iCloud thing where a bunch of famous women had home videos of themselves stolen?
by soperj 8y ago
You mean like the iCloud thing where a bunch of famous women had home videos of themselves stolen?
- dorchadas 8y agoWasn't that more social engineering and password guessing though? Nothing they can do there apart from more security layers in the password/login but people will still not use string passes and be suspectible to social engineering.
- linkregister 8y agoAfter that they did exactly that, they included multi-factor authentication when it was previously unavailable. The MFA available in 2018 is dramatically better than it was in 2014, when I believe all that occurred. Companies that don't protect unsophisticated users from simple mistakes or inaccurate mental models will get a reputation for being insecure and lose sales. This is regardless of whether the user "should have known better."
- bitmapbrother 8y agoTheir iCloud service was susceptible to brute force attacks.
- Rjevski 8y agoThat was caused by stupidity - reckless password management on the victim’s part.
- soperj 8y agoNot really. Apple had no limit on the number of times that you could input a password incorrectly. They brute forced it. That's on Apple.
- Rjevski 8y agoTrue, but I won’t put all the blame on Apple here. A good, random 30-char password would be impossible to crack even with thousands of attempts per second.