People generally put passcodes to lock mobile devices for a safe side but, if you think that you are safe to have an iPhone locked with a passcode, then you are not. The reason behind this is that a new method has been researched to easily crack your iPhone passcode that means it is even not safe having an iPhone with a Passcode in it. According to a researcher, there are flaws with your iPhone passcodes that makes your phone unsafe even if it is locked with a passcode. A glitch is discovered that make your iPhone passcode easy to crack by the researcher. A Hacker Can Easily Crack Your iPhone Passcode by using brute force, he can crack the passcode and unlock your phone without any data loss, According to his research.
Though there is a limited number of attempts to enter a passcode a security researcher Matthew Hickey has found an easy way to cross this limit. As the researcher says that in spite of entering combinations of multiple four or six-digit codes, a single long string with various supposed codes without any space will bypass the limit and the whole process can be done by connecting the device to a computer. this phenomenon of Matthew Hickey is revealed in a video and also shared on Twitter.
According to this discovery, it came out that there are errors present in the iOS, So there is the number of devices which are in this particular version of iOS and are equally unprotected, no matter whether it is an iPhone or an iPad.A security researcher Matthew Hickey has already reported about this passcode flaw in iPhone as he disclosed on his Twitter account. Matthew Hickey is a security researcher and the co-founder of Hacker House, a cybersecurity company.
Although, iOS 12 Users Will Remain Safe
As Matthew Hickey’s discovery shows that bypassing the data-erase feature in any device when it is required to be connected to a computer though it does not harm the iOS 12 users with the USB Restricted Mode which simply limits a USB connection for the charging purpose only. However, this method to crack the iPhone passcode is time consuming but is still not difficult. Although a patch is rolled out and all users running iOS 11.3 or less should prevent physical access to their device while Apple is yet to comment about this bug.