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Title: Switch to six digits for your iOS passcode Post by: HCK on January 23, 2016, 03:00:20 pm Switch to six digits for your iOS passcode
<article> <section class="page"> <p> It’s been thought for a while that a four-digit passcode on an iPhone (and other devices) was too weak. While Apple had safeguards in place to prevent repeated failed attempts, a proof of concept in March 2015 showed how that could be bypassed (http://blog.mdsec.co.uk/2015/03/bruteforcing-ios-screenlock.html) by disassembling a phone and carefully cutting power at the right instant after a failure. As noted in the post, this “IP Box” cracker works even with the option set to erase a phone after 10 failed PIN attempts—iOS never counts the failed attempts because power is cut.</p><p> Anything that’s shown publicly is clearly available privately to anyone with the effort and resources, which typically includes government agencies (in democracies and elsewhere) and criminals, and any individual with enough interest in extracting data from a device.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3018152/security/switch-to-six-digits-for-your-ios-passcode.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Switch to six digits for your iOS passcode (http://www.macworld.com/article/3018152/security/switch-to-six-digits-for-your-ios-passcode.html#tk.rss_all) |