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posted by n1 on Thursday June 11 2015, @09:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the head-in-the-sand,-data-in-the-cloud dept.

A security researcher has published attack code he said makes it easy to steal the iCloud passwords of people using the latest version of Apple iOS for iPhones and iPads.

The proof-of-concept attack exploits a flaw in Mail.app, the default iOS e-mail program. Since the release of version 8.3 in early April, the app has failed to properly strip out potentially dangerous HTML code from incoming e-mail messages. The proof-of-concept exploit capitalizes on this failure by downloading a form from a remote server that looks identical to the legitimate iCloud log-in prompt. It can be displayed each time the booby-trapped message is viewed.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/serious-ios-bug-makes-it-easy-to-steal-users-icloud-passwords/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @02:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @02:59PM (#195417)

    You're holding it wrong!