Locked iPhones can still uprooted Hacker

German security researchers have demonstrated that the password is stored on a stolen or lost iPhone can still be hacked, though it was locked.

Jens Heider and Matthias Boll from the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) has published a paper and video demonstration of their findings. Similarly, as quoted from Softpedia, Friday (02/11/2011).

To access the phone and open access to the file system, the hackers use the device to perform its action jailbreaking. Then they upload a script specifically designed to open a password that is stored in the iPhone.

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate that the iPhone is stolen or lost, the data can still be dismantled within, and outside the IOS device.

Furthermore, the passwords on Cisco IOS devices can not provide full security guarantees for its users, because in reality their protection mechanism can be easily uprooted.

The owners of the IOS device that is lost should immediately change the password from the data, "the advice of the researchers.

This must be done for which his account is not stored on the device but have a common password, added the researchers.

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