iOS 9.3 will be launched these days by the Apple company, and among the many improvements prepared by those from Cupertino is the solution of a extremely important vulnerabilities that affect the iMessage messaging system made for iDevices.
John Hopkins University researchers have discovered a vulnerability in iOS 9 that allows hackers to decrypt the messages, pictures and video clips sent via iMessage among iDevice users, the Apple company saying that this system is impossible to exploit.
Basically, although the FBI claimed that it could not crack iOS and Apple claimed that it could not even help it to do this, John Hopkins University researchers demonstrated that they could do it, and the Apple company was notified of the problem and a will solve in iOS 9.3.
In order for this vulnerability of iOS 9 to be exploited, it is necessary for hackers to intercept users' iMessage conversations and clone an Apple iCloud server together with the 64-digit security key that enables information encryption.
Even Apple, with all their skills—and they have terrific cryptographers—wasn't able to quite get this right. o it scares me that we're having this conversation about adding back doors to encryption when we can't even get basic encryption right.
The keys are not normally visible, but computer security researchers managed to discover it through a brute force attack, the Apple company implementing a partial solution in previous versions of iOS, a permanent one to be offered with iOS 9.3.
University researchers will publish a paper on this topic today, stating that iOS 9.3 will be released today by Apple, but it remains to be seen if this will happen, or if iOS 9.3 will be available in the following days for users in the whole world.
