![]() iDict was released on New Year's Day, and its creator tweeted on January 2 that people trying to use the service were causing iCloud accounts to be locked for security reasons, preventing hackers from gaining access. It looks like Apple acted fast to shut down the hacking tool. Apple blocks these "brute force" attacks, but it seems that there was a hole in its security that iDict exploited. IDict worked by guessing a user's password by running through a long list of commonly used passwords until it hit upon the right one. Pr0x13, the person who created the hacking tool, claimed that there was a "painfully obvious" flaw in Apple's iCloud which could be used to bypass security systems like passwords, security questions, and even two-factor authentication (which is the security system using text messages that could have prevented the celebrity iCloud hack). It used a hole in Apple's security to repeatedly guess user passwords, allowing hackers to access any account given enough time. ![]() Currently Apple locks a users account if it. ![]() IDict was a hacking tool released online on New Year's Day. iDict, a new tool released by Pr0x13, claims to bypass brute-force safeguards and two-factor authentication when cracking an iCloud account password. ![]()
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