Hackers Hack the iPhone in Six Minutes
The Inquirer: Security experts break an iPhone's encryption protection in just six minutes to gain access to passwords.
"Boffins at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) in Germany devised the hack. The researchers did the tests to demonstrate that passwords aren't secure on Iphones that have been lost."
"They obviously had a point to prove and weren't happy with just hacking Apple's shoddy security encryption in six minutes. Within the allotted time, the team also managed to retrieve most of the passwords stored on the Iphone, accessing personal data that could be used to get into bank accounts."
"What's great about this hack is that the team spends some time in its report tellng us that it renders the Iphone completely vulnerable as a business tool. It could even make a company's network security vulnerable as well."
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