Each new version of both iOS and OS X brings us improvements in terms of security offered by the different Apple operating systems. The latest update of iOS 10.2, increases the security of backups, making them more difficult to hack. Exactly security has been improved up to 1.000 times Compared to the backup copies that could be made with version 10.1 of iOS, as confirmed by the developers of iMazing, an application that allows us to add and delete files from our iOS devices without having to use iTunes.
The copy security system in iOS has remained unchanged in its encryption since iOS 4, but with the release of iOS 10, Apple is gradually improving. the way backup passwords are validated so that outsider's friends cannot access them using brute force tools. In the previous system of encryption of backups, hackers could access the content of these protected with backup copies using brute force attacks in just three hours.
But with the release of iOS 10.2, which is currently in beta, the guys from Cupertino have improved the system making it virtually impossible to hack the backup. The second major update to iOS 10.2 is scheduled to arrive before the end of the year, as it is currently in the second beta, a beta that Apple launched yesterday along with a new beta for Apple TV and watchOS. With this security enhancement, if a hacker wants to apply a brute force attack to extract password-protected content from a backup, it will take a little over 1.000 years to do so.