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📅 April 3, 2014

New iOS 7 Bug Allows Anyone To Disable Find My iPhone and Bypass Activation Lock [video]

New iOS 7 Bug Allows Anyone To Disable Find My iPhone and Bypass Activation Lock

With iOS 7, Apple requires Find My iPhone to be disabled in order to delete an iCloud account or restore a device. To disable Find My iPhone, you need to first input the password of the Apple ID associated with that iCloud account. This way, if your iOS device gets stolen, the thief will not be able ( easily ) to remove the account and avoid being tracked via the Find My iPhone website. Unfortunately a new iOS 7 bug allows you to bypass this security measures.

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📅 February 14, 2013

iOS 6.1 Security Flaw Allows Anyone To Bypass The iPhone’s Password Lock [video]

A security flaw in Apple’s iOS 6.1 lets anyone bypass your iPhone password lock and access your phone app, view or modify contacts, check your voicemail, and look through your photos

A security flaw in Apple’s iOS 6.1 lets anyone bypass your iPhone password lock and access your phone app, view or modify contacts, check your voicemail, and look through your photos (by attempting to add a photo to a contact). We hear that this bug has been fixed in the newly released iOS 6.1.1 ( iPhone 4S only ).

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📅 November 8, 2011

Charlie Millers Discovers iOS Code Signing Security Flaw. Gets Kicked Out Of The Developer Program [video]

Charlie Miller, a former NSA analyst who now works as a researcher with consultancy Accuvant, created a proof-of-concept app called Instastock to show the vulnerability

Charlie Miller, a former NSA analyst who now works as a researcher with consultancy Accuvant, created a proof-of-concept app called Instastock to show the vulnerability. The simple program appears to merely list stock tickers, but also communicates with a server in Miller’s house in St. Louis, pulling down and executing whatever new commands he wants.

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