{"id":38443,"date":"2015-03-16T11:12:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T18:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/?p=38443"},"modified":"2024-04-18T09:42:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:42:17","slug":"iphone-pin-pass-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/iphone-pin-pass-code\/","title":{"rendered":"This Black Box Can Brute Force Crack iPhone PIN Passcodes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIf you don’t have time to read this whole blog post, do one thing for me okay?<\/p>\n

Change your iPhone password from a simple 4 digit numeric code to a longer, more advanced version, which can include letters and symbols as well as numbers.<\/p>\n

Done that? Good. Now go and watch some cat videos<\/a> on YouTube.<\/p>\n

\"IPFor the rest of you who are still with me, check out this fascinating blog post<\/a> by British security consultancy firm MDSec.<\/p>\n

The team at MDSec has highlighted the availability for purchase of a hardware tool, called IP Box, that can brute force crack the four digit password that most users have protecting their iPhones.<\/p>\n

Which means that if you wanted to break into someone else’s iPhone\u2014maybe because you’re a law-enforcement agency, or a jealous partner\u2014you could have the tools in your hand for less than \u00a3200.<\/p>\n

As the advertising blurb I read on one sales site describes, “Simply attach the device to the iPhone or iPad and it will give you the code within 6 seconds to 17 hours. You will then have full access to your iPhone\/iPad and all user data remains intact.”<\/p>\n

Here’s a YouTube video<\/a> (which gets interesting from about 30 seconds in, despite the lack of cats) demonstrating the hardware brute force attack in action, guessing the PIN code of an iPhone:<\/p>\n