> http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/05/29/apple-ios-ransomware-mystery-deepens-oleg-pliss-pops-up-in-la/
>
> Hopefully Apple will patch quick and remind us why they are security
> superheroes while Windows still is vulnerable to Crypto and ICE and a
> few dozen ransom wares that have been out for over a year.
Patch?
First you create a password for a site, banking perhaps, or Target, or some such, that gets hacked through *their* system vulnerabilities.
Then, against ALL advice to the contrary, you re-use that same password on iCloud.
The hacker tries the thousands of passwords he got from his hack, together with the attached name, on iCloud.
He finds a few that match, locks those people's devices, and demands ransom.
It isn't clear to me how Apple fixes the users stupidity.
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