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International Journal of
Research in Advanced Engineering and Technology
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VOL. 4, ISSUE 2 (2018)
The security of iMessage and its Metadata
Authors
Grayden Tiner, James Anderson
Abstract
With hundreds of millions of users using mobile phones in todays’ corporate world, the risk for security breaches has never been greater. The data that phones can leave behind can be very damaging to a company if the mobile phone is used for work, with today's companies most IT teams allow a "Bring your own device" policy. iMessage is one of the leading mobile communications application, because of this hackers are increasingly trying to steal information transmitted through iMessage. After looking at a few hypothetical ways to hijack, spoofing data from iMessage, and even investigating logs and backups, the amount of data that is left behind is more shocking than users would believe. iOS backups can leave behind old messages, contacts, and pictures transmitted through iMessage, but users can avoid this by encrypting the backups. In all iMessage is safe enough for an average user to use without worrying about data being stolen.
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Pages:37-40
How to cite this article:
Grayden Tiner, James Anderson "The security of iMessage and its Metadata". International Journal of Research in Advanced Engineering and Technology, Vol 4, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 37-40
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