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While Apple’s iOS software has many great features it is not perfect by any stretch.
One of those less-than-perfect examples is that sometimes you will get an awful lot of iCloud or iTunes Store login pop-ups. We all know the ones, they appear after we’ve updated our phones and seemingly won’t disappear until we’ve inputed the right password.
Well now a mobile app developer has discovered that it is shockingly easy to recreate these login boxes and then trick users into handing over their email and password.
FELIX KRAUSE
In a blog post, Felix Krause shows how you can create a fake login box that looks pretty much identical to the official Apple login box.
Comparing the two side-by-side there’s no way that a person would be able to tell them apart.
In creating the fake login box, Krause called the whole process “shockingly easy” while pointing out that it perfectly capitalises on a now almost subconscious action that we all perform.
Felix Krause
These boxes appear so often that it has just become second nature for many of us to fill them in without thinking just to get them to disappear.
So who do we protect agains these?
As Krause points out there are a number of reasons why you’re very very unlikely to ever encounter a fake login box.
For starters they have to be built into the app, which means getting it past Apple’s very strict approval process. Secondly you would need to have downloaded a malicious app, which in turn can be avoided through some checking of the app’s permissions etc.
Most importantly though is activating two-factor authentication.
Autor: nickisosnowski
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