Five days later we are still seeing the consequences of the great scandal of the leak on Internet forums of intimate photos of famous personalities; Since then, information has appeared that does not stop Apple’s security policy, and in particular its iCloud cloud storage service. Although the first reaction of the company focused on asking users to be more aware of their safety, little by little we are seeing the first real changes in the company, as announced by Tim Cook in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. .
Alerts that will update us on our account
Cook ensures that a service update in two weeks will introduce security alerts, both by email and by push notifications on our device. This system will notify us when someone tries to change our password, download our files from iCloud or when a new device is associated for the first time with that account. In this way, if a hacker gains access to our account, we will be able to know it at the moment to change the password and secure our data. Some of these notifications were already present, but in the form of an email and only when the password was changed or a device was associated. By adding push notifications the alerts will be instantaneous and we will find out instantly, and we will also control that copies of our files are not made without us knowing it.
Another change in Apple’s security policy is expand the use of authentication in two steps to log in to our account; that is, it is not enough to just enter the password, but we also have to use a key saved on our iPhone that shows that we really are the ones who are logged in. Two-step authentication was already available to log in to iTunes, and The next version of iOS will require it to log in to iCloud.
Will these measures suffice? Cook did not mention security issues related to iCloud and Find My iPhone at any time, but hopefully this is not the last thing we read about, especially if hackers continue to distribute private photos as they have done throughout this week.
Source | The Wall Street Journal
