Almost always updates of the operating system come to solve problems or to improve performance but and seems that they had a significant slip in the latest operating system from Apple is that encryption of files of the mail is deleted Electronico.como collect the companions of RedesZone, with iOS 4 Apple included an important role in their systems and was the encryption on all their devices adding an extra security layer so that any unauthorized user who tries to access the files was with a 256-bit encryption. This function was designed to protect, especially, e-mail attachments and applications, to make them safe from the prying of others.
As reported by the computer security researcher Andreas Kurtz, Apple has eliminated customer email encryption so that your data are now stored without encryption. The researcher, to verify his finding, created an IMAP mail account, sent several messages with attachments and shuts off the device. Using different techniques such as SSH, ramdisk and the like, was able to access the partition data of iOS and thence to the files that had been mailed.
The expert says that it has checked that this absence of data encryption occurs, at least with iPhone 4 IOS 7 and the recent iOS 7.1.1 Besides with a 5s iPhone and an iPad 2 on iOS 7.0.4. The reason for using these models and in those versions, it's pretty simple, is that still, in one way or another, they are vulnerable to the jailbreak, i.e. have any exploit without closing that can inject its code - iPhone 4 is permanently vulnerable because it has an exploit at the hardware level.
Without a doubt, this is a step backwards for the security of Apple devices that are exposed in this way files of the user's e-mail. Apple, for its part, after receiving the report of Kurtz simply said that they were already aware of this therefore suggests that the company has deliberately done so for any reason and may not want to, or not they can re-enable it for some reason in the future.
Do you think that it is a problem that worry this decision by Apple? What you think you may be the reason to step back from this type? Leave us your opinion in the comments and we encourage you to share it also in the forums devoted to the Californian company's products.
Source: Blog Andreas Kurtz
