iOS 10 Vulnerable, Passwords 2,500 Times Easier to Hack than iOS 9
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....
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