Apple Beefs Up iCloud Security
September 5, 2014
Grazed from TopTechNews. Author: Jennifer LeClaire.
Tech giant Apple is taking the iCloud hack that revealed naked selfies of various celebrities seriously. The iPhone-maker plans to roll out new security measures to keep its users, whether celebrities or everyday Joes, safe. Apple CEO Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal the company will alert users via e-mail 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.
Apple also plans to implement two-factor authentication, which would demand hackers have access to at least two pieces of info the user offered when signing up for the account, such as a code, a password, or a log access key…
"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 told the Journal. "I think we have a responsibility to ratchet that up. That’s not really an engineering thing."…
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