Your iPhone And iPad Just Got Easier Than Ever To Hack

iPhones can be pre-set to erase content if incorrect PINs are entered 10 times in a row. This new tech seems to have found a way around it.

Devices that break into iPhones by brute-forcing passwords have been around since the iPhone was released, but iOS engineers developed countermeasures, including the latest: a nuclear option that wipes phone data if the wrong password is entered 10 times. But this clever (and insidious) $300 black-market IP Box has beaten that system by plugging directly into the phone, according to a post by security consultancy firm MDSec.

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Published on March 18, 2015 10:32
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