![]() ![]() >If all of this seems like a side note to the new features Apple nerds really care about, like a bigger iPhone screen, it’s not. For a company about to ask its users to entrust an even greater portion of their digital lives to its cloud, that's the last thought Apple wants on anyone's mind. The message the world is hearing is that if it's that easy to hack Jennifer Lawrence's iCloud account, it's probably that easy to hack mine too. But for the average user, how it was done is really beside the point. Apple says the attacks were "very targeted" at specific user accounts, not the iCloud or Find My iPhone systems as a whole. The exact methods that led to the apparent breaches and theft of photos from celebrity iCloud accounts hasn't been confirmed. And as the world saw over the weekend, those cloud services might be about as secure as leaving your front door key under the mat. When the new devices arrive next week, they'll be tied together with an Apple operating system more dependent on the company's cloud services than ever before. ![]() The media crush will soon descend on Cupertino, California, as Apple prepares to announce what will surely be its newest iPhone, quite probably its latest laptops, and possibly its first smartwatch. ![]()
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