As you already know very well, this week was dominated by the scandal in which hundreds of HOLLYWOOD NAKED STAR PICTURES appeared on the Internet, they were stolen from iCloud. Apple has admitted that NUDE PICTURES of Hollywood stars were stolen from its system, but denied that it was hacked by hackers, suggesting that they used phishing attacks to find out the passwords Apple IDtheirs.
In his first interview on the subject, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said celebrities' iCloud accounts were compromised when hackers correctly answered security questions to obtain their passwords or when they were victimized by a phishing scam to obtain user IDs and passwords. He said none of the Apple IDs and passwords leaked from the company's servers.
A interview granted to the WSJ, Tim Cook claims that the hackers obtained correct answers to the security questions of Apple IDfixes may Hollywood stars or directly obtained their passwords, and so on iCloud there will be new security measures. For starters, the system will notify users via email and push notifications when a person tries to change a password Apple ID, trying to install a backup on a new terminal or logging into the account for the first time, until now the notifications were non-existent and the email was only sent when the password was changed or when logging in for the first time.
To make such leaks less likely, Mr. Cook said Apple will alert users via email and push notifications when someone tries to change an account password, restore iCloud data to a new device or when a device logs into an account for the first time. Until now, users got an email when someone tried to change a password or log in for the first time from an unknown Apple device; there were no notifications for restoring iCloud data.
This new system will be activated in two weeks, that is, probably immediately after the launch iOS 8But Tim Cook says that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), could have done more to strengthen the security of its users. In this idea, after receiving the notification regarding the interaction with our account, iOS/OS X will allow us to immediately change the password or notify the Apple security team about a breach of our account.
When I step back from this terrible scenario that happened and say what more we could have done, I think about the awareness piece. I think we have a responsibility to ratchet that up. That's not really an engineering thing.
Apple has been heavily criticized for the problems regarding NUDE PICTURES of Hollywood stars stolen through what was initially believed to be an iCloud security breach and although those from Cupertino are trying to convince the world that the system is safe, this stigma will be present for a long time for its service.
