CNN: Apple is Hackers New Bulls-Eye

It's all about market share... From the E-Secure-IT News Feed Apple is the new hacker bulls-eye (from CNN at 18-6-2010) Illustration from MaximumPC When Apple was just a niche maker of Mac computers and only truly popular among college students and graphic designers, hackers paid little attention to the company. Instead, they focused on Microsoft, which had more than a 90% share of the PC operating system market. Those days are over. Recent iPad security scares are a sign that Apple's devices are a growing target for hackers, spammers and malicious coders. "Market share is a pretty good indicator of who hackers are going after," said ... read more»

Hackers respond to security breach linked with iPad (from TopNews at 18-6-2010) Goatse Security, the hackers supposedly blamed for iPad security breach have answered back the carrier's letter sent to the 114,000 customers affected claiming that they had no hands in alerting the media (Gawker), and may be a work of Chinese hackers. The blog that appeared on the Gizmodo's site from Gawker was alerted to the security issue last week by Goatse Security, stating: "If not for our firm talking about the exploit to third parties who subsequently notified them, they would have ne... read more»

Hackers say iPad has more security holes (from CNN at 15-6-2010) A day after AT&T fessed up to its iPad 3G customers about a security breach, the hackers that exploited the vulnerability in AT&T's website said there are still lurking security problems related to the iPad. In a blog post, hacker group Goatse Security said Monday that a "skilled attacker" could take advantage of a weakness in the iPad's Safari Internet browser. The browser's bug could potentially allow someone to gain unwanted access to a user's iPad when that user clicks a malicious link.... read more»

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