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PapayaSF and AnonTechie write in with 2 stories which seem to be linked. The first is the leak of nude and personal photographs of celebrities, and the second is perhaps the flaw that allowed someone to access the photographs.
Stars Exposed in Massive Nude Photo Leak
Nude celebrities, bitcoins, and Apple: it's a story seemingly designed to stir up the entire internet. Scores of private photos of celebrities such as Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Kirsten Dunst, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead have been leaked (allegedly from Apple's iCloud), and posted on 4chan in exchange for bitcoins. A list of 100+ names has appeared, but pictures have not yet appeared for many names on the list (including Kate Bosworth, Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, and Kaley Cuoco). Victoria Justice claims the photos of her are fake. Twitter accounts are being shut down. The story is still developing, so grab your popcorn.
This could be the Apple iCloud flaw that led to celebrity photos being leaked.
An alleged breach in Apple’s iCloud service may be to blame for countless leaks of private celebrity photos this week.
On Monday, a Python script emerged on Github (which we’re not linking to as there is evidence a fix by Apple is not fully rolled out) that appears to have allowed malicious users to ‘brute force’ a target account’s password on Apple’s iCloud, thanks to a vulnerability in the Find my iPhone service. Brute force attacks are where a malicious user uses a script to repeatedly guess passwords to attempt to discover the correct one.
The vulnerability allegedly discovered in the Find my iPhone service appears to have allowed attackers to use this method to guess passwords repeatedly without any sort of lockout or alert to the target. Once the password has been eventually matched, the attacker can then use it to access other iCloud functions freely.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday September 02 2014, @11:54AM
"What I find funny is all the people who act like their shit don't stink"
I'm with nyder on this 100%. Its exactly like how if you want to find gay congressmen you look for the loudest homophobic republican and I guarantee that type is getting pounded in the ole docking port every night by some other dude or swapped positions, even worse often just a kid not adult.
When I was in the Army it was the same way, loud homophobic speech was repeatedly demonstrated to be a homo mating call, the louder two guys were about hating gays, the more likely you'd catch the two of them together with their pants down.
And they never take well to having this pointed out or laughing at them, however funny the situation.
Being a straight guy I don't entirely understand, but I think its along the lines of going way overboard on an attempt to camouflage such that you find the most camouflaged dude in the group, you Know exactly what he's up to and trying to hide/distract. I'm certain that the louder the complainer about the nudes, the more likely they got them open in another tab at the instant they're typing.