iCloud Service Increasingly Worrying

               TEMPO.CO, California - Mathew Honan is confused now. This "WIRED" magazine reporter is no longer able to access the service iCloud from his cell phone. Though normally no problem. When going in, he even asked to enter a new four-digit PIN.
               Previously, Google and email accounts compromised Honan. Twitter account hijacked. He never broadcast a message of racism and homophobia, but it is written. Its peak, his account hacked AppleID. All the data that he kept in the iPad, iPhone, and MacBook disappeared without trace.
               Honan story raises big questions about the security of cloud services. Less than a week after the DropBox service recognizes burglarized earlier this month, Apple iCloud service turn a bit of bad luck.
               The hackers find it on the last four digits of credit card Honan. That figure is used to verify ID at Apple. So, they pretend to verify ID as Honan and remove his iCloud password.
               Honan said Apple's own account is used to purchase the song. Then, the identity that he made a point of entry to control the phone, tablet, and a computer. »To enter all my data," he said.
               By means of the so-called »social engineering" Honan password breaker can easily fit in to your Amazon and Apple. Enough with the combination of credit card and the authentication of Apple, they took over the account.
               Davide Castelvecchi, technology experts from the United States, stating what had happened to Honan is a reminder of the new wave in the world of technology, the Cloud Computing.
               Whether coincidence or not, at the time of adjacent, co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, showing a sense of anxiety over the trend of Cloud Computing, which is now emerging into a digital service solutions.
»I'm worried about everything that happens in the Cloud. I think it will be terrible and will be many terrible problems in the next five years, "said Woz.
               For many people, Cloud provides convenience and no hassle. But for Woz, it makes people lose control. »When we move everything to the web or to Cloud, the less we have control over it."
               Paul Kocher, president of Cryptography Research, a computer security firm in San Francisco, said that now there are many companies gamble with the security of customer data.
               It should, he said, there is legal action against companies that neglect the security of the data of its customers.(yahoo.com)

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