{"id":743191,"date":"2013-03-22T17:47:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T21:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=392771"},"modified":"2013-03-22T17:47:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T21:47:39","slug":"apple-security-hole-allows-unauthorized-access-to-icloud-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/743191","title":{"rendered":"Apple security hole allows unauthorized access to iCloud account"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/22\/apple-exploit-security-hole-hack-392771\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"419\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/apple-logo-sign-virus-mac.jpg?w=650&#038;h=419&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C419\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple Exploit Security Hole\" title=\"Apple\" \/><\/a><\/center>A <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/14\/iphone-security-vulnerability-ios-6-1-327260\/\">new security vulnerability<\/a> has been discovered that allows unauthorized users to gain access to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aapl\">AAPL<\/a>) accounts that have not yet upgraded to the company's new two-step verification feature. The exploit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/3\/22\/4136242\/major-security-hole-allows-apple-id-passwords-reset-with-email-date-of-birth\">as reported by <em>The Verge<\/em><\/a>, allows anyone to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/25\/apple-ios-6-1-vulnerability-343637\/\">reset an Apple account password<\/a> with only an email address and date of birth. This action is achieved through a modified URL accessing Apple's own iForgot password support page. Users can protect themselves by turning on Apple's two-step verification feature. The extra\u00a0layer\u00a0of security requires users enter a verification code that has been sent to a trusted device prior to changing any personal information.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/gGlXWXzb0PY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new security vulnerability has been discovered that allows unauthorized users to gain access to Apple (AAPL) accounts that have not yet upgraded to the company&#8217;s new two-step verification feature. The exploit, as reported by The Verge, allows anyone to reset an Apple account password with only an email address and date of birth. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37kX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}