Researchers at Elcomsoft, a forensic company that specializes in password cracking, have learned of a new vulnerability that makes iOS 10’s backups easier to crack. Apple’s iTunes backups are designed with mechanisms that make password cracking relatively slow. For instance, Elcomsoft’s iOS 9 backup cracker could only try 2400 passwords a second. That might sounds like a lot to a human, but at that rate it would take thousands of years to crack a relatively short eight character password. This new iOS 10 vulnerability allows the researchers to try 6 million passwords a second, speeding up brute force attempts 2500 times. Watch the video below for more details, and stay on the lookout for the latest iOS 10 update.
Episode Runtime: 2:35
Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2BjinCrH_Y
EPISODE REFERENCES:
- iOS 10 iTunes backups easier to crack – Elcomsoft
- Apple to release iOS 10 fix soon – BGR
— Corey Nachreiner, CISSP (@SecAdept)
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