{"id":17983,"date":"2013-09-19T16:04:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T23:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/?p=17983"},"modified":"2013-09-19T16:04:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T23:04:08","slug":"passcode-flaw-found-in-ios-7-that-was-quick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/passcode-flaw-found-in-ios-7-that-was-quick\/","title":{"rendered":"Passcode Flaw Found in iOS 7 (That Was Quick!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/enter-passcode-blog-header.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12329\" alt=\"enter-passcode-blog-header\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/enter-passcode-blog-header.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/enter-passcode-blog-header.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/enter-passcode-blog-header-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/enter-passcode-blog-header-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There have been so many passcode flaws found in the last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/return-of-the-passcode-flaw-in-ios-6-1-3\/\">few versions of iOS<\/a>, it&#8217;s almost becoming a big ol&#8217; yawn, in a scary sort of way. Thankfully, this one is fairly simply fixed, until the next security update from Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Just one hour after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/apple-ios-7-update-improves-security\/\">Apple released iOS 7<\/a>, a soldier in the Canary Islands <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andygreenberg\/2013\/09\/19\/ios-7-bug-lets-anyone-bypass-iphones-lockscreen-to-hijack-photos-email-or-twitter\/\">downloaded the new iOS on his iPhone<\/a> and found a new passcode bypass that allows access to email, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr among other things.<\/p>\n<p>This video shows how it&#8217;s done:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tTewm0V_5ts?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This technique appears to work on a variety of devices, but the timing seems to be a little finicky. In order to stop it, you&#8217;ll need to disable access to the Control Center on the lockscreen. You can do this by going into \u201cSettings\u201d and then \u201cControl Center.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been so many passcode flaws found in the last few versions of iOS, it&#8217;s almost becoming a big ol&#8217; yawn, in a scary sort of way. Thankfully, this one is fairly simply fixed, until the next security update from Apple. 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