{"id":3548,"date":"2016-09-27T13:21:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T17:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2016-09-27T13:21:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T17:21:54","slug":"ios-10-security-flaw-makes-cracking-encrypted-backups-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/2016\/09\/27\/ios-10-security-flaw-makes-cracking-encrypted-backups-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 10 Security Flaw makes cracking encrypted backups easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While updating its Phone Breaker software for iOS 10, Elcomsoft, a Russian cybersecurity firm, discovered a security flaw where encrypted backups can be hacked fairly easily. Apple\u2019s chosen password verification method contains a flaw that makes it possible to bypass some security checks. In the past, iOS 9 limited the amount of password attempts that could be made even when with GPU acceleration at 150k times a second. With iOS10, the flaw allows 6 million times a second. By allowing more attempts in a second, the risk of hackers successfully entering the phone has increased tremendously. Elcomsoft says at that speed \u201chackers would only need to leave their software running for 2 days until the odds of success approached 90 percent\u201d. But, the real risk is the local encrypted backup done through iTunes. With a full backup, a user\u2019s keychain, Apple\u2019s storage system for passwords,cc numbers and other personal info, is encrypted and stored on the local PC\/machine. With the possibility of being able to retrieve the password fairly easy, hackers can gain access to the PC\/machine containing the backup and decrypt it as well the keychain to gain access to personal information. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/beware-ios-10-security-flaw-makes-cracking-encrypted-backups-2500-times-easier\/<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While updating its Phone Breaker software for iOS 10, Elcomsoft, a Russian cybersecurity firm, discovered a security flaw where encrypted backups can be hacked fairly easily. Apple\u2019s chosen password verification method contains a flaw that makes it possible to bypass some security checks. In the past, iOS 9 limited the amount of password attempts that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11595,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[715345],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-04-enterprise-architecture","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3549,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}