The security of our devices is something that continues to be part of not only technological news, but also general news. THE attacks can also come from connectors, as happened a few years ago with the Thunderbolt security flaw on some PCs. With that in mind, there’s a powerful little setting on our iPhone or iPad that you’ll probably want to enable.
USB accessories, the key to many attacks
In the past, we’ve talked about how Hide UI, Grayshift’s tool, lets you extract passcode from a locked iPhone. How did he figure it out? After connecting the iPhone to the corresponding machine, it installed a malware who captured the password of the device once the user enters it.
GrayKey was a kind of “magic box” that managed to unlock iPhone X and other models of its time. It was designed to perform a brute-force attack on the device’s password, a technique that other similar devices might well employ. In the face of such attacks, what can we do? Easy, disconnect the port until the password is entered.
Apple has been giving us this option for quite some time now. We can enable it by following these steps:
- We open the application settings on our iPhone or iPad.
- We entered Face identification and code oh Touch ID and passcode:
- We enter our code and press ALL RIGHT.
- We disable Accessories:
With this simple step we obtain that when the iPhone or iPad has been blocked for more than an hour, any USB accessory that connects to it will not have access to the data interface needed to communicate with the device. With the remote tools we wonder if our iPhone can be infected with Pegasus, although in this case the answer is clear: without a code there is no access.
When the device is locked, it is not possible to install, read or modify a file on the device. Undoubtedly, one of the many security measures that Apple adopts to protect the large amount of personal data that we store on our devices.
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