Russian special services have access to user data in iCloud
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Last week, the Russian company Elcomsoft, which develops software to recover lost or forgotten passwords, announced a new product. Rather, it is an optional feature in the application Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker. (Program gives law enforcement officials access to the backups of data from iOS devices and BlackBerry.)
Until now, authorities are able to meet only with offline backups of user information, and provided physical access to the device under study. Now, physical access is not necessary, but backups iGadzhetov can if necessary load directly from iCloud.
According to MacRumorsTo read the backup stored in the iPhone information, employees of power structures need only Apple ID and password of the suspect. With these data, the security services or law enforcement agencies will have remote access to email mail, call logs, history of web surfing and text messages iGadzhetov owner, save in iCloud. In addition they will be available and all updates of data about the user's activities in near real time, and the observed object is to know about the surveillance will not. Take hold of your Apple ID and password iPhone not so simple, but the staff of the security forces is under force. They are usually removed from the offline backups in iTunes. The rest - a trick.
The moral of this story is that Elcomsoft employees actually broke communication protocol between iCloud and remote devices, and it is, in principle, it is not surprising, given the specificity of the work company. Surprisingly different, namely, the fact that the disclosure of information about the achievements of Elcomsoft researchers.