Apple has promised to strengthen the protection of its services from hacker attacks – radio station Echo of Moscow

This is due to the recent scandal, when dozens were stolen intimate photos of Hollywood celebrities.

The sensational story dealt a severe blow to the reputation of Apple. It is assumed that access to the photographs taken on the “iPhone”, the attackers got through the cloud storage iCloud. Service is usually automatically saves all images to make them available to other devices of the same user. Apple CEO Tim Cook claims that iCloud reliable as safe and that, in fact, his system of defense, no one broke. According to him, the hackers went to the accounts of Hollywood celebrities under their own usernames and passwords. In an interview with Wall Street Journal, Tim Cook said that the attackers used the password recovery and picked the correct answers to test questions.

In addition, they used phishing – is when a user receives a letter from a resource that is trusted, is a fake page that looks indistinguishable from the real, and it leaves your username and password. That is nothing new attackers did not come up and no holes in the security system was not found. Apparently, Hollywood actresses and singers, who posed for “iPhone” naked summed own carelessness. With regard to Apple, the company will now inform users about trying to change the password, enter the iCloud with an unknown device or restore files to the service. As promised, Tim Cook, this system will work in two weeks.

From hackers hit about a hundred Hollywood celebrities. The investigation leads the FBI.