Apple hacked - iOS Beta 4 might not appear today
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The developer centre specifically
http://www.macrumors.com/2013/07/21/apple-developer-website-hacked-developer-names-addresses-may-have-been-taken/
Read a comment from someone wondering if the loophole allowing iOS7 to be installed on non account holding phones will be closed. Hope not - don't really want to fart around downgrading again now 7 is working so well
http://www.macrumors.com/2013/07/21/apple-developer-website-hacked-developer-names-addresses-may-have-been-taken/
Read a comment from someone wondering if the loophole allowing iOS7 to be installed on non account holding phones will be closed. Hope not - don't really want to fart around downgrading again now 7 is working so well
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Apple however kept this fairly large vulnerability quiet for a few days. Which doesn't look good.
Is there really much to shout about considering its only supposed to be devs that should have access to iOS7 anyway, and the advise given is not to use your main iPhone/iPad while its in beta.
If iOS7 was officially out in to the wild for all then yeah I would most certainly say its much more of an issue to be shouted about.
The Google problem you refer to was regarding a released product which is a somewhat different order of magnitude.
However, having said that, I was a bit surprised that as a developer it was only this morning I received an email from Apple saying it had been down since last Thursday. Typical Apple tight lippedness.
I was also a bit surprised it took all of 4 hours for the Android gloaters to come out of the woodwork
It seems the biggest group of people that will cry about this are the fake devs that shouldn't even be on iOS7, let alone getting timely updates!
It is not of the same scale of that with Androids recent security issues nor an in the wild security flaw on consumers actual phones.
They leave little to chance, apart from their servers that is.
The wobbly spin looks good.
And they will now know more about the hacker security researcher than that guy even knows about himself.
Seems quite strange how they never spoke to him. Was he one of many?
Best not to announce whilst you're working out what is going on, working out which systems you can trust and where it all started from.
Suitably vague, they even left that guy waiting expecting to be arrested. Hero to intruder in one single email.
Obviously with servers turned off from Thursday it became a tad hard to stay silent come Monday.
And did they tell a very big porkie about the 'unknown hackers' or was the London security guy just one of many criminal hackers prior?
See what I mean about the confusion? Even the good guys end up the enemy.
Clever use of words meant the press would end up praising Apple for its defense systems in reaction to the hackers.
Yet in fact Apple did not use that more malicious term hacker nor claim any pro active defense.
Someone could do a great short drama on all those separate 13 security filings and the days after.
I think you should do the drama. You are very good at trying to create it:rolleyes:
Was he close to going into hiding or to the Ecuador embassy?.
The sense of panic setting in may have been quite extraordinary..
He should have known how it works with Apple. The very same happend to Charlie Miller.
"The obvious implication: don't search for security vulnerabilities in Apple products, and if you do find them, keep them to yourself."
http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20111107/18193216671/find-vulnerability-apple-software-lose-your-license-as-apple-developer.shtml
It went down Thursday for 'maintenance'.
They as likely expected a quick fix, but after a few days realizing they do not quite know what they doing they went on Plan B.
And do they yet know what they are doing? Seemingly not as the site is still down.
Then if you read further down it does kind of make sense as to why the action was taken.
That is what people do. Often an angry 6 months later when they see a bug unfixed
CM went off to work for Twitter. Quite obviously Apple had no need for a ''more real' security expert.
You are missing the point, alanwarwic is after drama, not reality.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/apple-hack_n_3634843.html
Do you fully believe they would have told us anything at all if they had got it back running?
Still down with that infuriating 'back soon' showing BTW
If so you'd be getting update emails..
So much drama..
Cannot expect them to announce it straight away, nor just reboot the servers and carry on. They overhauling security as well as implementing upgrades they were planning for later in the summer. This will take time.
Remember the Sony hack knocking all customers offline.. this isn't that. Remember the Android vulnerability on millions of phones... this isn't that.
It only affects Devs and iO7 Beta 4 has not been delayed because of it. They even managed to launch a Mavericks Dev P4 update last night so not really an issue bar devs with ongoing projects like myself.
Do you have an ongoing project that this is causing a problem Alan? If not then it's daft that you are even commenting.
Normally you can do or bodge a fix within hours.
Instead they have resorted to turning the conversation away from not quite knowing what they are doing.
Their longest outage in history, and being Apple, it makes it difficult for a developer to pass comment.
I wish someone had told Sony that when they took PSN offline for 24 days.
Also again.. how is it affecting users?
http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
So you are saying that taking time to fix a serious security problem is "resorted to turning the conversation away from not quite knowing what they are doing". This becomes funnier by the minute:)
Any comparison to that longer one around?