iOS 10 backups are easier to crack, but Apple promises to fix security flaw

After Apple’s battle over encryption with the FBI, you’d expect Apple’s newest iOS to continue the trend of providing even better privacy and security than the previous iOS version. Sadly, that’s currently not true as iOS 10 has a “major security flaw” which leaves the data locally backed up to iTunes much more vulnerable to password cracking.

At least that is what Russian forensic software company Elcomsoft claimed on Friday. Apple allegedly weakened the method for protecting local backup files in iOS 10 by skipping some security checks. In other words, the security mechanism for protecting iOS 10 backups, which are saved locally on a computer via iTunes, are more susceptible to password-cracking tools.

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