With iOS 10 is more easy to crack the backups… – PoderPDA

use caution when backing up

With the new generation of smartphones of Apple, changes and improvements have been notable, however, also the problems have taken the limelight. We find that the iPhone 7 has been listed as the best LCD on the market, however, a problem such as the Hissingate has overshadowed the good news, at least until they are changed all the devices with this fault. In addition, Apple has released iOS 10.0.2 to solve software problems as the fault with the EarPods Lightning or bad audio quality in calls, although, a bad situation did not delay in joining.

according to the recent analysis of Elcomsoft, a company that specializes in software designed to access the data on the iPhone, iOS 10 uses a new password verification for the backups of the devices stored in the iTunes, however, the fact that it is a new system of verification does not make you more secure. That is to say, this move of Apple could mean a big gap for the iOS users because they could be "hacked" their backups from iTunes very easily.

Any encrypted backup copy on iTunes and created on a Mac or PC are protected by a password highly secure, however, the backup method in iOS 10 skips certain security controls, which allows special software to decrypt backups is approximately 2500-fold faster or more efficient in comparison with iOS 9 and earlier operating systems.

Elcomsoft turned to a new system that allows you to capture the passwords only with the use of the CPU of the PC/Mac, however, the results were impressive. The new security system to iOS 10 is 2500-fold more accessible compared with the one used in the old backups of iOS 9, even using the GPU NVIDIA GTX 1080.

in this regard, the security analyst Per Thorsheim, Peerlyst, says that Apple has changed the use of the algorithm PBKDF2 with 10 thousand iterations to the use of an algorithm, SHA256 with a single iteration, which allows a significant increase of the speed to obtain forcibly a password.

Apple, in a statement, claimed to be aware of this problem. In addition, they have confirmed that they are addressing this issue in an upcoming security update. It appears that this security breach does not affect the backup of iCloud, however, it is recommended that the users ensure your PC or Mac computer with secure passwords, so that only authorized users have access to the computer and do not lose personal information.

No more, it has been reported that Apple has sent you a beta version of iOS 10.1 developers, which could improve minimal failures with devices and improve the condition of the security of the backups. So, this situation could not affect many people, however, maintain a certain level of caution, at least until iOS 10.1.

With information from Macrumors.