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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Thu Sep 4, 2014, 07:03 AM Sep 2014

Meet the Russian-made tool that grabs nude selfies from iCloud accounts

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2602320/the-russianmade-tool-that-grabs-nude-selfies-from-icloud-accounts.html

Meet the Russian-made tool that grabs nude selfies from iCloud accounts

There’s a seedy trade in compromising photos stored in Apple iCloud accounts, and it is in part aided by a software program that cleanly collects the data.

Some of the nude celebrity photos are believed to have first been circulated on Anon-IB, a definitely not safe-for-work forum. As reported by Wired, the forum is full of offers for iCloud “ripping,” or downloading the entire contents of an account.

The software tool they’re using is Moscow-based Elcomsoft’s Phone Password Breaker, or EPPB, one of many forensic tools the company develops for law enforcement and other clients.

Elcomsoft CEO Vladimir Katalov said via email on Wednesday that there are legitimate uses for his company’s software and that it doesn’t exploit flaws in Apple services.

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Meet the Russian-made tool that grabs nude selfies from iCloud accounts (Original Post) unhappycamper Sep 2014 OP

At a 2013 conference in Vienna, Mr Katalov showed how he could access iCloud back-ups jakeXT Sep 2014 #1

If your life is spent sitting at your computer upaloopa Sep 2014 #2

jakeXT

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1. At a 2013 conference in Vienna, Mr Katalov showed how he could access iCloud back-ups

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Thu Sep 4, 2014, 07:48 AM

Sep 2014

"There are chinks in the armour which could potentially be exploited."

Mr Emm added that he was concerned by the fact that ElcomSoft's software has been around since 2012.

"I think (the vulnerability) has probably been raised several times," he said, and the fact that Apple had not beefed up its two-step verification system was "a surprise".

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Prof Alan Woodward, a computer security expert at the University of Surrey, said the holes in Apple's two-step verification system amounted to a "fundamental security flaw" and that it was "like double locking your front door and leaving the window open".

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29045789

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014887448

upaloopa

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2. If your life is spent sitting at your computer

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Thu Sep 4, 2014, 08:48 AM

Sep 2014

for hours looking for nude selfies I think you have a wasted life.

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