US secrets—and lies—unravel in NSA leaks. Apple Confirms That Its Dev Center Has Been Breached By Hackers. After 3 days of silence as to why the iOS Developer Center has been down, Apple has just confirmed that they are investigating a security breach.
Developers just began receiving the email below; Apple has confirmed to us that the e-mail is legitimate. According to the email, Apple detected a security breach on its Dev Center servers on Thursday. While most of the information on the servers was encrypted and Apple claims it’s safe, they do say that the hacker(s) may have accessed developer’s names, addresses, and email addresses. Though we’ve yet to hear any reports of any individual accounts being used maliciously, it seems the intruders might already be attempting to use the accessed data to their advantage; since the developer center went down on Thursday, we’ve heard dozens of reports of developers receiving unsolicited password reset requests.
A quick search on Twitter turns up dozens more. Update — Just got off the phone with an Apple rep, who confirmed a bit more: Apple v. Samsung: What the jury was told. News By Martyn Williams July 31, 2012 12:13 PM ET IDG News Service - The 10 California jurors who will decide the rights and wrongs in the battle between Apple and Samsung were sworn in late Monday and alongside instructions on how to proceed during the case, the U.S. judge presiding over the case explained to them the basics of the high-profile battle.
So much has been written in the media -- both factual and opinionated -- about the case that it might seem familiar to many, but the jurors have been told they aren't allowed to read press reports, research it or do their own investigations.
Clarinette: "RT @diane_berard: #Chinese workers ..." « Deck.ly. Microsoft ID guru slams 'duplicitous' Apple. High performance access to file storage Microsoft chief architect of identity Kim Cameron has insisted that the "non-personal information" collected by Apple can be used to personally identify you – despite angry counterarguments from at least one Jobsian fanboi.
At a privacy conference in Seattle, Washington, Cameron last week gave a talk that touched on Apple's recent changes to its iPhone privacy policy, which he first flagged up in late June. Apple now says it will collect "non-personal information - data in a form that does not permit direct association with any specific individual," and it reserves the right to disclose this information "for any purpose. " This, according to Apple, includes data such as "occupation, language, zip code, area code, unique device identifier, location, and the time zone where an Apple product is used so that we can better understand customer behavior and improve our products, services, and advertising. " But the fanboi was unbowed. Steve Jobs Is Watching You: Apple Seeking to Patent Spyware. It looks like Apple, Inc., is exploring a new business opportunity: spyware and what we're calling "traitorware.
" While users were celebrating the new jailbreaking and unlocking exemptions, Apple was quietly preparing to apply for a patent on technology that, among other things, would allow Apple to identify and punish users who take advantage of those exemptions or otherwise tinker with their devices. This patent application does nothing short of providing a roadmap for how Apple can — and presumably will — spy on its customers and control the way its customers use Apple products.
As Sony-BMG learned, spying on your customers is bad for business. iPad Privacy Breach: Today's Outrage. NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Apple (AAPL_) has been compromised for the last time.
It was bad enough that AT&T's (T_) network couldn't handle the super-powerful, signal hogging SUV of gadgets, the iPhone. Now, as the iPad heats up, it turns out AT&T left open a gaping hole that created what has to be the most egregious of privacy breaches of our time -- some of our nation's richest and most powerful people have had their email addresses exposed. Blogs Gawker and Valleywag, units of Gawker Media, parent to the Gizmodo site that famously exposed the iPhone prototype to the world, broke this huge iPad story.
FBI Investigating IPad E-mail Leaks - PCWorld Business Center. The U.S.
Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into the leak of an estimated 114,000 Apple iPad user e-mail addresses. Hackers belonging to a group called Goatse obtained the e-mail addresses after uncovering a Web application on AT&T's Web site that returned an iPad user's e-mail address when it was sent specially written queries. After writing an automated script to repeatedly query the site, they downloaded the addresses, and then handed them over to Gawker.com.
Now the FBI is trying to figure out whether this was a crime. "The FBI is aware of these possible computer intrusions and has opened an investigation into addressing the potential cyberthreat," said Lindsay Godwin, an FBI spokeswoman. Investigation by Request The investigation was opened Thursday by the FBI's Washington Field Office, she said. They wrote a PHP script that flooded AT&T's Web site with possible ICC-ID numbers and logged responses when the site returned an e-mail address.
Damage Denied. Should I Worry About the Apple iPad + AT&T Security Breach? (Pro. AT&T Responds to BoomTown Privacy Breach Via Email (Oh, the Iron. Earlier today, I wrote a piece about how I was one of the 114,000 AT&T customers whose email and device identity numbers had been easily exposed earlier this week via a flaw in the way the company registered the Apple (AAPL) iPad 3G for cellular access.
In my post, I complained that I had yet to hear from the telecom giant about the security snafu and release of my personal email address, which AT&T (T) had yet to acknowledge to those impacted. Well, the company does read tech blogs, so this morning, this communication from a PR honcho was sent to my work email, which is available on this site publicly. Regrets? AT&T has a few: Hi Kara:I am writing to apologize that your personal e-mail address was made public. As you can see, I used my crack security system–DELETE!
And while I do appreciate the reaching out, I still want to hear–as do others affected–officially from AT&T about exactly what’s what. (Suggestion to make us happy: A free iPhone 4 might be a sweet gesture.