Intimate photos of celebrities stole simple password guessing

That night, after scandalous "plum" erotic pictures of celebrities on the Web, Apple still closed the security hole. It turns out that the culprit was the banal password guessing and small application vulnerability Find my iPhone. But even that was enough to put all the feet on the ears.

According to tehnoblog The Next WebA couple of days ago, the script has been posted on the web, which allows to select passwords simple search. This became possible due to the vulnerability of Find my iPhone app. It's amazing, but the service did not warn users that they are trying to crack.

It turned out that the day before the hype unknown user posted on the repository Github the script and the database of the 500 most popular passwords. Naturally, any programmer could use its own database, but will rely on the known.

As a test of the theory, a security specialist Vinisyush K-Max I wroteThat use the published script he managed to "hack" your own account. This was due to the lack of blocking the IP-address or the account after a number of failed login attempts. Of course, right now the "hole" has already been closed.

If you miraculously do not know what is happening, that on the night of August 31 to September 1, the Network published hundreds intimate pictures celebrities of different color and size. These included: the winner of the "Oscar" of Jennifer Lawrence, Keighley Coke, who played the role of Penny in the television series "The Big Bang Theory" Bride Wladimir Klitschko - actress Hayden Panettiere, and many others "stars".

A day later Apple representatives did deign to give answer on the current situation. "We are actively engaged in this issue. Safety of users is very important for us ", - said spokeswoman Natalie Kerris company.

And you, dear readers, we recommend to be careful. Put even complex passwords.