{"id":2366,"date":"2011-02-10T16:32:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:11:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:11:35","slug":"your-iphone-passwords-owned-in-6-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/your-iphone-passwords-owned-in-6-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Your iPhone Passwords Owned in 6 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

6 minutes; that’s all it takes for someone who finds or steals your iPhone or other iOS device to decrypt your passwords. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute of Secure Information Technology have released a video showing how easy this is. They jailbreak the device, access the keychain file, and decrypt it. Any passwords you’ve stored will be accessible – your e-mail account, web sites, banking information, etc. There’s not much we can say about this for now, other than to hope that Apple fixes this pretty quickly.<\/p>\n


\n<\/object><\/center>The researchers have published a paper with full details of the attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

6 minutes; that’s all it takes for someone who finds or steals your iPhone or other iOS device to decrypt your passwords. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute of Secure Information Technology have released a video showing how easy this is. They jailbreak the device, access the keychain file, and decrypt it. Any passwords you’ve stored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[353],"class_list":["post-2366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-apple","category-security-privacy","tag-password-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t