Related News: Nude-Photo Hackers Are Sad Apple Ruined Their Fun

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Wired published an article titled Nude-Photo Hackers Are Sad Apple Ruined Their Fun.

Late last week, Anon-IB, the anonymous image board that served as one of the central forums for hackers stealing and sharing nude photos from iCloud, came back online after a prolonged “maintenance” outage. The thousands of archived posts in its “/stol/” section, devoted to discussion of how to crack iCloud and steal unwitting victims’ compromising selfies, have been deleted. Those posts have been replaced with new ones from frustrated hackers lamenting that their sext-stealing hobby isn’t what it used to be.

Source: Wired

Related News: Update: What Jennifer Lawrence can teach you about cloud security

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Update: What Jennifer Lawrence can teach you about cloud security.

This breach appears different from other recent celebrity “hacks” in that it used a near-zero-day vulnerability in an Apple cloud interface. Instead of using social engineering or some low-tech research to gain control of the victims’ cloud accounts, the attacker basically bashed in the front door—and Apple didn’t find out until the attack was over. While an unusual, long, convoluted password may have prevented the attack from being successful, the only real defense against this assault was never to put photos in Apple’s cloud in the first place. Even Apple’s two-factor authentication would not have helped, if the attack was the one now being investigated.

Source: Ars Technica

Related News: Selfie linked to stolen iPhone a case of whodunit

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Selfie linked to stolen iPhone a case of whodunit.

The tale of an iPhone stolen from a burglarized Southern California home sits at the intersection of Web culture and the swap meet.

A woman in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita reported to authorities that her home had been ransacked July 30, and among the missing items were cash and an iPhone. But in what appeared to be another episode of Thieves Gone Stupid, the victim’s iCloud account was hit with pictures, including a selfie of a cute couple posing on a pillow.

Source: Ars Technica