The last thing that Tim Cook needed on the eve of the launch of the iPhone 6 and iWatch…. Assuming those rumors are true of course….. was having to defend his company against claims that the iCloud lacks security because a bunch of celebrities had their nudie pics leaked. But that’s exactly what the CEO of Apple is doing in the Wall Street Journal. Here’s what Cook plans to do to make sure that this never happens again:
To make such leaks less likely, Mr. Cook said Apple will alert users via email and push notifications when someone tries to change an account password, restore iCloud data to a new device, or when a device logs into an account for the first time. Until now, users got an email when someone tried to change a password or log in for the first time from an unknown Apple device; there were no notifications for or restoring iCloud data.
According to the article, you should see this in a couple of weeks. If you get one of these alerts, you can either change the password to retake the account or alert Apple’s security team. That sounds great on paper. I’ll wait until it appears and I’ll let you know how good it is.
Other thing that Apple plans to do include:
- Broaden the use of two-factor authentication to also cover access to iCloud accounts from mobile devices like iPad and iPhone.
- Aggressively getting its users to turn on two-factor authentication. The reason being according to Cook that had the celebrities been using two-factor verification, the hackers would not have been able to guess their security questions.
Tim Cook Also said this:
When I step back from this terrible scenario that happened and say what more could we have done, I think about the awareness piece,” he said. “I think we have a responsibility to ratchet that up. That’s not really an engineering thing.”
Translation: Apple has to tell users to take better responsibility for their digital lives. That’s an interesting tactic. But it’s cold comfort to those who have had their nudie pics leaked to the web.
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Apple To Better Secure Your iCloud Account
The last thing that Tim Cook needed on the eve of the launch of the iPhone 6 and iWatch…. Assuming those rumors are true of course….. was having to defend his company against claims that the iCloud lacks security because a bunch of celebrities had their nudie pics leaked. But that’s exactly what the CEO of Apple is doing in the Wall Street Journal. Here’s what Cook plans to do to make sure that this never happens again:
To make such leaks less likely, Mr. Cook said Apple will alert users via email and push notifications when someone tries to change an account password, restore iCloud data to a new device, or when a device logs into an account for the first time. Until now, users got an email when someone tried to change a password or log in for the first time from an unknown Apple device; there were no notifications for or restoring iCloud data.
According to the article, you should see this in a couple of weeks. If you get one of these alerts, you can either change the password to retake the account or alert Apple’s security team. That sounds great on paper. I’ll wait until it appears and I’ll let you know how good it is.
Other thing that Apple plans to do include:
Tim Cook Also said this:
When I step back from this terrible scenario that happened and say what more could we have done, I think about the awareness piece,” he said. “I think we have a responsibility to ratchet that up. That’s not really an engineering thing.”
Translation: Apple has to tell users to take better responsibility for their digital lives. That’s an interesting tactic. But it’s cold comfort to those who have had their nudie pics leaked to the web.
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