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Title: New password-hacking tool for iCloud claims to evade Apple’s brute-force protections
Post by: HCK on January 02, 2015, 09:00:26 pm
New password-hacking tool for iCloud claims to evade Apple’s brute-force protections

  Update: We are now receiving reports that the vulnerability has been patched. People trying to use the tool are apparently now being correctly locked out from repeated password attempts. A new tool submitted to GitHub claims to be able to perform password dictionary attacks on any iCloud account, seemingly able to evade detection from Apple’s rate-limiting security that is supposed to […]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=359464&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />

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