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I posted this link and I named it the way I did to draw attention to this in context of CSAM enforcement... this man could have easily uploaded any photos to these hacked iCloud accounts, which would've been synced down to end user devices. Apple didn't catch on to this, despite him not using VPN or Tor... it wasn't until the FBI investigated a public figure's hacked and posted photos that this came to light. [EDIT]:…
It's kind of funny. When you look into cyber security, the papers are all about controlled rate limiting, advanced anomaly detection, client fingerprinting, the likes, but in practice, very little companies will actually pick out abuse like this. This creep didn't need advanced tooling, exploits or deep knowledge of the backing system. All he needed was a basic phishing scam to work well enough, and the official iClo…
Google will alert the account owner (across all channels -- devices they own, and Gmail) when there's a login from a new device. Doesn't Apple do the same?
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if you actually did, you should change your password now. And pick a more secure one. (not going to try if what you posted actually works...)
It doesn't. DO NOT TRY. I was just giving an example of a classic scam, and I can't believe someone actually tried it.
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A friend once pointed out that it's likely a majority of "amateur" porn is likely private content from hacked or stolen accounts and wasn't posted by the any of the parties depicted. He mentioned this when a bunch of stories were coming out about GeekSquad and other IT help as a service companies stealing data or acting as data harvesters for the FBI/DEA etc.
I don't really understand why people even make their own porn, but that aside, I really don't understand why they would save it in the cloud.
I have been thinking about "nudes" (which I will use as a shorthand to describe digital images of a person sans clothing, almost always taken by that person) in terms of cultural evolution. A couple of years ago I mentioned, on HN, that I knew Jenni, of JenniCam, before the "cam," back when she was just experimenting with this new digital camera device. And then they became more and more available. For a brief time t…
I presume the hunger is more about having access to something you are not supposed to have access to, or were not given access to.
"Everything in human life is really about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.”
This reminds me of this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28279326
Where the attacker was able to trick Tmobile / Sprint customer service into providing a PUK number.
It's kind of funny. When you look into cyber security, the papers are all about controlled rate limiting, advanced anomaly detection, client fingerprinting, the likes, but in practice, very little companies will actually pick out abuse like this. This creep didn't need advanced tooling, exploits or deep knowledge of the backing system. All he needed was a basic phishing scam to work well enough, and the official iClo…
Google will alert the account owner (across all channels -- devices they own, and Gmail) when there's a login from a new device. Doesn't Apple do the same?
It's kind of funny. When you look into cyber security, the papers are all about controlled rate limiting, advanced anomaly detection, client fingerprinting, the likes, but in practice, very little companies will actually pick out abuse like this. This creep didn't need advanced tooling, exploits or deep knowledge of the backing system. All he needed was a basic phishing scam to work well enough, and the official iClo…
You mean like this? EDIT: DO NOT TRY WHAT FOLLOWS IT IS AN EXAMPLE OF A SCAM. Wow! XYZ is smart enough to block your password so others can't see it! ╍⡵ⱇ⪞‾╴⧊↧Ⓗ⥔⋾⁅ I can see it, but you can't. Try it!!!! An unbelievable number of people fell for this on Myspace and Facebook in the early days.
It's kind of funny. When you look into cyber security, the papers are all about controlled rate limiting, advanced anomaly detection, client fingerprinting, the likes, but in practice, very little companies will actually pick out abuse like this. This creep didn't need advanced tooling, exploits or deep knowledge of the backing system. All he needed was a basic phishing scam to work well enough, and the official iClo…
You mean like this? EDIT: DO NOT TRY WHAT FOLLOWS IT IS AN EXAMPLE OF A SCAM. Wow! XYZ is smart enough to block your password so others can't see it! ╍⡵ⱇ⪞‾╴⧊↧Ⓗ⥔⋾⁅ I can see it, but you can't. Try it!!!! An unbelievable number of people fell for this on Myspace and Facebook in the early days.
> he impersonated Apple customer support staff in emails that tricked unsuspecting victims into providing him with their Apple IDs and passwords > He gained unauthorized access to photos and videos of at least 306 victims across the nation > Investigators soon discovered that a log-in to the victim’s iCloud account had come from an internet address at Chi’s house Not very sophisticated, but very effective, glad they…