Sometimes, accessing information stored in the user's iPhone is possible remotely, even without accessing the original device. Such access is made possible by the fact that iCloud had more than 250 million users last year; this number is steadily growing.
Meet iCloud forensics: acquiring user data with no lengthy attacks and no physical access to an iPhone device. With recent developments, you don't even need the user's Apple ID and password to access their cloud data. Sounds too good to be true? Let's see what the catch is.
Apple iCloud is a popular service providing Apple users with 5 GB of free online storage space. This storage can be used to back up the content of Apple devices, and to store additional information such as documents, pictures, and music. Last year, more than 300 million Apple customers were actively using iCloud. The numbers are constantly growing.
iCloud offers great convenience to its users. If, for example...