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It was Jennifer Lawrence and Rihanna and Selena Gomez and a hundred other celebs. But it could quite easily have been you and me, for no one is really safe when it comes to a hacking attack. On August 31, the internet was rocked by a celebrity leak scandal with nude pictures of over 101 Hollywood celebrities hitting the world wide web.The bust involved bitcoins, hackers and celebrities raised a perfect internet storm. It was first posted on coque samsung j3 2016 hibou a photo board platform 4Chan where users can post anonymously. It is till now not clear who uploaded the pictures or how it happened but one thing common to all the celebrities is that they all are users of iCloud, the coque samsung j5 2017 voiture Apple cloud service. Apple Inc last night issued an official statement confirming that some celebrities had their accounts compromised by a mass attack on “usernames, passwords, and security questions”.”After more coque j5 2016 samsung than 40 hours of investigation, we have discovered that certain celebrity accounts were compromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions, a practice that has become all too common on the Internet. None coque de samsung j3 2016 en silicone licorne of the cases we have investigated has resulted from any breach in any of Apple’s coque iphone 7 8 coque samsung galaxy j3 2016 3d ananas systems including iCloud or Find my iPhone. We are continuing to work with law enforcement to help identify the criminals coque liverpool samsung j3 2017 involved”, Apple Inc said in a statement.Some of the celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence and model Kate Upton have acknowledged that the leaked photos are real. But others like Victoria Justice and Ariana Grande coque voiture samsung j3 2017 have issued statements calling the photos fake.Experts say that hackers were able to get access to the media stored on the cloud either coque autres huawei by using Apple’s ‘Find my iPhone’ feature or hacking into the desktops and laptops. Not only photos, hackers would have had access to a lot of other personal data like phonebook details, calendar entries, texts, real time GPS coordinates and any notes stored on the phone. But for them, celebrity pictures made a better choice to encash.Here’s a look at how coque psg pour samsung j3 2017 accounts can be hacked:On 30 August, a day before the mass leak, a code for an AppleID password brute force proof o concept was shared on the code hosting site GitHub. The code exploits the weak link in Apple’s Find My iPhone features which allowed hackers multiple unlimited attempts at passwords. The iCloud service works only on a password and login ID (which is the email). The photos which get saved in the My Photo Stream of iPhones get backed up in the iCloud. Hackers may have used the brute force technique to get access to individual clouds.Brute force attack is a method used by hackers to try out all the possible keys or passwords until the correct one is found. It is like using the simplest kind of method to gain access to a site. In short, it is taking advantage of the weakest link in a site: the user.Most websites lock out users after a certain number of attempts but till few hours back that was not the case with Apple. After the massive leak, the company coque samsung j5 2016 original femme has claimed to fix this issue. But for using brute force technique hackers would have needed emails or usernames to even attempt finding the right password.Engadget in a report said: “If this was the flaw used, the hackers would have needed coque samsung j3 2016 ronaldo email addresses of celebrities. But, it’s possible that only one address is needed, allowing to search inboxes for those of others in a domino effect.”Though it is not confirmed yet if this vulnerability of iCloud and the leaks are connected, it certainly had some role to play.The other speculation is that it could have been a case of good old spear phishing. It is not necessary that the capturing device for photos was just the iPhone camera, it could also have been the webcam or camera saved on the desktops and laptops. Apple has a feature which lets users back up their images and other data to iCloud automatically and is available across any Apple device. Chances are that most of the users have enabled the feature without coque samsung j3 oreille de mickey realizing the consequences. It is not just iCloud, even Google Inc has similar feature for Android which lets users back up files from any device.For anything other than handheld device, spear phishing works fine to install a backdoor entry mechanism into the machine. It is a form of coque samsung j5 2017 rose silicone phishing an email spoofing fraud attempt. According to Norton, the anti virus solutions provider, spear coque iphone xr phishers rely heavily on familiarity. “He knows your name, your email address and coque noeud samsung coque iphone 4 j5 2017 at least a little about you,” the company says in a FAQ. It could also be a product company with which you deal on regular basis.In case of a coque iphone 7 phishing attempt, the emails are on behalf of well known organizations mostly financial institutions or social networks asking for sensitive information like password or credit card details or such.In the age of internet, love letters and other amorous correspondence is sent across emails. That makes emails susceptible to coque de samsung galaxi j3 2016 liquide paillette a breach. Hackers could have accessed the email addresses by re setting their passwords. This can be done by answering few simple security questions like what’s the name of your pet or what street do you live on or what’s your mother’s last name. This is one of the most common ways of accessing email accounts without user permission. The fact that such information is not difficult to guess adds to the vulnerability.PRECAUTIONS TAKEN TO SECURE ACCOUNTSTechnology companies have to tread a fine line between being user coque pour samsung a70 ringke friendly and making the service secure. Adding many layers coque rose samsung j5 2016 of security means various kinds of authentication which many users don’t like. But after the scandal, whether you are a celeb or not, you are still vulnerable…

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