See also: EPPB is a program that makes it possible for a user to download iCloud backups from Apple's iCloud servers onto a computer. Once there, the backups can be scoured for information including camera rolls, messages, email attachments and more.

In essence, the app reverse-engineers Apple's 'restore iOS backup' functionality, only instead of downloading the backed up data to a physical device, it downloads it to the cloud. The application, which costs between $79.99 and $400 depending on the version, can also be used to retrieve backups from Windows Live (now OneDrive) and to unlock access to BlackBerry, BlackBerry 10 and iOS backups. Perusing through various image boards on 4Chan and AnonIB, it's clear that EPPB is the tool of choice for most individuals involved in the types of iCloud 'rips' as they are known, that are believed to be at the center of the celebrity photo thefts.

Restore your device from an iCloud backup. Turn on your device. Follow the onscreen setup steps until you reach the Apps & Data screen, then tap Restore from iCloud Backup. Cd Label Software Boeders. Sign in to iCloud with your Apple ID. Choose a backup.

EPPB even promises to let users access iCloud backups without a password. Yes, there are caveats, but that promise was intriguing. Curious (and a bit concerned), I decided to figure out how this software works and try to theorize just how easy it would be for anyone to do their part to break into an iCloud account. My initial target was myself, though I soon found that it would be remarkably easy to use this type of software to access the iCloud backups of my colleagues, my spouse and many of my family members. For just $200, and a little bit of luck, I was able to successfully crack my own iCloud password and use EPPB to download my entire iCloud backup from my iPhone.

For $400, I could have successfully pulled in my iCloud data without a password and with less than 60 seconds of access to a Mac or Windows computer where I was logged into iCloud. Breaking into iCloud is way easier than I thought it would be Even after reading through various image boards and seeing boasts of how easy it was to 'rip' iCloud backups, I held out hope that the process of actually downloading my own iCloud data would be slightly difficult. Sure, many of the boasters sounded unintelligent (and not tech savvy in a way that most good cracker types usually are) and sure the website for EPPB had disarmingly simple-looking screenshots, but surely the process for breaking into my own iCloud account would be difficult. All you need is someone's iCloud password and then, two-factor authentication or not, you can download the content of their iCloud backups in minutes. OK, so how does someone obtain an iCloud password?

Well, again, this was easier than I thought it might be. As Nik Cubrilovic outlines in his on the data theft, there are a few common vectors (that is, attack holes) for obtaining an iCloud password. Cubrilovic lists them in order of popularity and effectiveness: • Password reset (secret questions / answers) • Phishing email • Password recovery (email account hacked) • Social engineering / RAT install / authentication keys The first possibility, using a password reset, can be remarkably effective. As Cubrilovic notes, 'Apple accounts seem particularly vulnerable because of the recovery process, password requirements and ability to detect if an email address has an associated iCloud account.' 'The recovery process is broken up into steps and will fail at each point. While Apple do not reveal if an email address is a valid iCloud address as part of the recover process, they do reveal if it is valid or not if you attempt to sign up a new account using the same email – so verification (or brute force attempts) are simple. The second step is verifying the date of birth and it will pass or fail based on that data alone so can be guessed, while the last step are the two security questions.'

In other words, it's very easy to figure out if an email account is connected to an Apple ID. That's step one. Step 2 is as simple as knowing the account creator's birthday. This information is often widely available, thanks to Facebook, credit reports and other information across the web. For celebrities, that information might even be in Wikipedia. The next step, which requires answering two security questions. This comes down to simple social engineering.

As a test, I decided to see if I could successfully reset the Apple ID account password for my sister (sorry, Kelley). I entered in her iCloud username and her birthdate, and then came across two security questions. It turns out, I only knew the answer to one of the question. Simply hitting 'refresh' on the question page, however, led me to a new combination of questions. Eventually, I managed to get a pair of questions I could answer. Voila, reset. Until Monday, the process could have been even easier, thanks to a brute-force tool that took advantage of lack of rate-limiting.

Apple has since closed that hole, but with a particularly bad password and some time (as to not trip-up the rate-limiting), this is an option too. In fact, I was able to use an iBrute-like tool to crack my own password (which, to be clear, was chosen to be extremely easy to crack. Like, it was Passw0rd1. Apple wouldn't let me use Passw0rd, but Passw0rd1 was just fine.).

So once you have an iCloud password, what can you do then? Well, this is where EPPB comes into place. Samsung Guru Music E1282 Apps Download here.

The program, which runs on Windows, simply asks for the username and password of the iCloud account in question. Simply login and you'll be greeted with the available device backups from that particular user. You can see what I saw after purposefully cracking my very bad password. Image: Screenshot Mashable, EPPB Now, this will download everything from my latest iCloud backup. It's basically the same as an iTunes backup you would do normally on your computer, but with a major exception: the data is not encrypted. With iTunes, you can opt to encrypt your phone backups, which would require another passcode or security code to access. With iCloud backups, that isn't the case.

Although the iOS Keychain file is encrypted (but there are tools that can help crack that), the actual files themselves, including your camera roll, call history, messages and other data are not. EPPB even lets users select what data they want to get. So if you're just interested in the camera roll, which includes all photos and videos stored on the phone, you can do that.