How to Lose Your iPhone Security in Six Minutes Flat
Lost your iPhone but think you are safe, and pretty smart, because you safeguarded it with password protection? Think again. Researchers in Germany report they've been able to reveal passwords stored in a locked iPhone in just six minutes, and without cracking the phone's passcode.
Lost your iPhone but think you are safe, and pretty smart, because you safeguarded it with password protection? Think again. Researchers in Germany report they’ve been able to reveal passwords stored in a locked iPhone in just six minutes, and without cracking the phone’s passcode.
In a new report and video, Jens Heider and Matthias Boll of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology show how a stolen iPhone can be quickly hacked, and the attacker given access to keychain, Apple’s password management system, and a huge cache of sensitive information.
The good news is this is not a remote maneuver, so the attacker must have the actual iPhone in hand.
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