{"id":22954,"date":"2018-10-02T14:51:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T18:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22954"},"modified":"2018-10-02T14:51:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T18:51:37","slug":"passcode-bypass-method-exposes-contacts-and-photos-in-ios-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/02\/passcode-bypass-method-exposes-contacts-and-photos-in-ios-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Passcode Bypass Method Exposes Contacts and Photos in iOS 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2018\/09\/29\/iphone-passcode-bypass-contacts-photos\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2018\/09\/29\/iphone-passcode-bypass-contacts-photos\/\">\n<p>A passcode bypass vulnerability has been discovered in iOS 12 that potentially allows an attacker to access photos and contact details on a locked iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>The rather convoluted bypass method was shared in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=11&amp;v=X2yQS1VzmZ0\">video<\/a> by Jose Rodriguez, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/04\/05\/apple-fixes-siri-vulnerability\/\">discovered<\/a> iOS bugs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2013\/09\/19\/ios-7-lock-screen-vulnerability-gives-access-to-photos-email\/\">in the past<\/a> that Apple has subsequently fixed.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Concerned users can do so by navigating to <strong>Settings &gt; Face ID &amp; Passcode<\/strong> (that&rsquo;s <strong>Settings &gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/touch-id\/\">Touch ID<\/a> &amp; Passcode<\/strong> on iPhones with Touch ID) and disabling the <strong>Siri<\/strong> toggle under the \"Allow access when locked\" menu.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hardwick: A passcode bypass vulnerability has been discovered in iOS 12 that potentially allows an attacker to access photos and contact details on a locked iPhone. The rather convoluted bypass method was shared in a video by Jose Rodriguez, who has discovered iOS bugs in the past that Apple has subsequently fixed. [&#8230;] Concerned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-10-02T18:51:38Z","apple_news_api_id":"58cede2f-5c67-4790-8112-cf5bea4dfeb6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-10-02T18:51:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AWM7eL1xnR5CBEs9b6k3-tg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[131,176,31,1610,927,48,247],"class_list":["post-22954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bug","tag-contacts","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-photos-app","tag-security","tag-siri"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22955,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22954\/revisions\/22955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}