At the start of this week, a small number of owners of the apple devices in Australia came up with a problem that their iPhones, iPads and Macs had been accessed so far by Oleg Pliss, inscrutable hacker.
What happened to the apple devices was a mystery but it seems that Pliss has completely locked down the gadgets of the devices by accessing through the user’s apple ids and passwords and had got the command over the features of the device. The purpose of this act could be to demand a payment through PayPal in order to regain access to the device.
One can easily protect their devices or personal data from Pliss or any other hacker with such an idea, by simply giving a strong password to their accounts. This is indeed the best way to avoid such problems.
If a user gets your iCloud authorization, he or she will easily access your personal data that may be your contacts or calendar and will fully destroy everything on it. Here is a way to
One should not have the awful habit of using one and exactly the same password for a number of important accounts that he own.
Although it will take more effort but unique and strong password is the most authentic way to avoid unwanted gate-crashers from obtaining your personal data.
A simple way to have a unique password is to think of a random sentence and take the first letter of each word present in that sentence .you can also add up some numbers and symbols and capitalize some of the letters. Now you can remember the password as long as you are having the sentence in your mind but to other it will just look like some random characters that cannot be easily memorized.
Another important step one could go for, to avoid access to personal data by an outsider is to give a pass code to the lock screen. It has been observed that the iphone users who had a pass code on the screen lock had protected their phones are able to unlock their devices even after getting alerts from Oleg Pliss. On the contrary, the one who didn’t could not regain access to their devices after getting alerts. If you have no idea how to turn pass code on apple is having pretty detailed instructions.
A statement issued from apple states that the reason for the hack was not the subjection within the iCloud but the affected ones were the victims of phishing scam. What the company stated according to ZDNet is.
Apple is very conscious about the security and iCloud was not used during the incident and the affected users were guided to change their apple ids and passwords and should avoid repetition of the passwords and use of same user ids for different accounts as cleared above. If any of the apple users’ needs some guidance can visit any of the apple retail store and can contact apple.
In a statement PayPal assured that no account with the email address that Pliss specified in his or her message is present.
The company official statement is “PayPal can assure customers that no PayPal account is linked to the email address referenced in the reported scam” and if any of the PayPal customers had paid money via PayPal in reference to the matter their money will be refunded. This is in the PayPal polices to protect its customers against fraud.
Regardless the incident was either the subjection within iCloud or a scam. The only way to protect ones devices is to go for passwords that are strong enough. The Oleg Pliss run down was one of the several attacks that occurred over the last few weeks. According to reports the eBay has also asked its users to change their passwords after the cybercrimes that use employees authorization and gain access to the cooperate network of the company.
