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Title: Meet the Russian-made tool that grabs nude selfies from iCloud accounts Post by: HCK on September 04, 2014, 09:00:20 pm Meet the Russian-made tool that grabs nude selfies from iCloud accounts
<article> <section class="page"> <p>There’s a seedy trade in compromising photos stored in Apple iCloud accounts, and it is in part aided by a software program that cleanly collects the data.</p><p>Some of the nude celebrity photos are believed to have first been circulated on Anon-IB, a definitely not safe-for-work forum. As reported by Wired (http://www.wired.com/2014/09/eppb-icloud/), the forum is full of offers for iCloud “ripping,” or downloading the entire contents of an account.</p><p>The software tool they’re using is Moscow-based Elcomsoft’s Phone Password Breaker (http://www.macworld.com.au/news/russian-forensic-firms-tool-snags-icloud-backups-without-an-apple-id-126670/#.VAfUMmSSzY9), or EPPB, one of many forensic tools the company develops for law enforcement and other clients.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2602320/the-russianmade-tool-that-grabs-nude-selfies-from-icloud-accounts.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Meet the Russian-made tool that grabs nude selfies from iCloud accounts (http://www.macworld.com/article/2602320/the-russianmade-tool-that-grabs-nude-selfies-from-icloud-accounts.html#tk.rss_all) |