Canadian Police Want to Force People to Give Up Passwords
Canadian law enforcement officials want to make their jobs easier, lobbying for a new law that would force people to give up their computer passwords upon request. Canadian Police Back Resolution to Compel Users to Give Up Passwords. The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) passed a resolution on August 16, 2016, advocating for such a law to be enacted by parliament. The timing of the resolution was decisively made to maximize its influence, as the Canadian government has begun conducting a study on cybersecurity and how to balance online freedoms with the police’s ability to....
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Apple’s new iOS 10 may have made passwords much easier to hack. According to Elcomsoft, a Russian security firm specializing in password recovery, using the Phone Breaker tool on iOS 9 allowed a hacker to try 150,000 different passwords per second in a brute force attack. In iOS 10, because of a flaw in iTunes login, that number jumps to 6 million per second. Therefore, a brute force attack employed on iOS 10 is 2,500 times easier than through iOS 9. In a statement, Apple acknowledged that it was aware of, and planning on addressing, this particular vulnerability, and that in the meantime....