It was reported-on by BBC News, and I remember it being featured as a Most Popular story for a while.
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Apple Developer Website Hacked: Developer Names, Addresses May Have Been Taken
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It was reported-on by BBC News, and I remember it being featured as a Most Popular story for a while.
So Apple says
Why didn't you do this as routine maintenance to prevent anything like this from happening to this severity? Sure you can't make it 100% immune from attacks, but you could make the data 98% safe.
Why didn't you do this as routine maintenance to prevent anything like this from happening to this severity? Sure you can't make it 100% immune from attacks, but you could make the data 98% safe.
Why didn't these hackers go after the NSA? They already have all Apple Dev Center data and lots more..
Excellent point. Yet, someone still has to make the viruses that the hired engineers/hackers fight. It'd be rather ironic if the very engineers who create viruses are also hired by virus companies to quarantine and destroy them.
Actually, that's rather brilliant.
You can completely overhaul something by working on it from a separate offline server, copying the data over, and then put up the Routine Maintenance screen while you change over to the new server (Or raid array) But because it was compromised, they took it down and will keep it down until they have a solution in place and everything all set.. Just like what happened to Sony during the PSN outage.
I doubt they will do that, but I think we deserve to have our accounts extended by the number of days the site is down, plus a couple more for the inconvenience.
Hopefully this doesn't effect iOS 7 Beta 4 release. But I think it most likely will.
I'm under the inpression that the iOS dev team and the security team are both separate entities, each doing their own things...
A complete rebuild of a database the size of Apple's, plus performing analytics to see what was accessed could take a week or more. Rebuilding a database the size of Apple's is no joke. If they are also restructuring the system, we could be looking at a Sony all over again. Sony was out for months. I doubt Apple would take that long, but start prepping your clients for lengthy delays and hope for the best.
This whole Apple vs Android fanboys thing is a little tiring for us normal people. Half of the comments are about how Android fanboys will hurt your feelings after this and you are already coming up with how you should fire back. Grow up and get a life! Both sides! The only thing that makes you a representative of either company is a malfunctioning group of cells in your brains.
Back to the actual topic, that's a pretty major fail on Apple's side. And before you jump into any conclusions, I'm an iPhone user.
Back to the actual topic, that's a pretty major fail on Apple's side. And before you jump into any conclusions, I'm an iPhone user.
Just got my email. It will be interesting to hear the details of the hacking - if they are ever released. I would hope Apple didn't have a weak system like Sony had.
Not Android users, Android zealots. If they do they should recall the saying about glass houses. It's not like Android hasn't been in the news lately for being vulnerable to viruses. Just saying.
Well, yes. But technically, they did leave us out in the cold for 3 1/2 days, which, if your life depends on the business, is a long time to be in the dark (to switch metaphors). And I still can't do anything, like enable Game Center on my app, which I really, really need to do soon.
Well considering android users are in no position to talk about security, I would have to agree and suggest the best thing to do is to simply ignore the posts. Also, I don't think this is a fail on Apple part. I doubt this was just a rogue hacker having some fun. Probably hacker groups in China on another barrage of cyber attacks. Have you forgotten government agencies have been hacked, the Associated Press itself was hacked not so long ago with a crazy tweet about the President being injured. I don't expect Apple to have more secure databases than that, we should just be thankful nothing important was taken (your mail addresses may provide to be a privacy concern but what are they realistically going to do with them?)
Another big issue is jurisdiction. Can anyone tell me a could computing company that's bonded to at least admitting where they store their data physically?
If a cloud company, sub-leases server space to an overseas data house, your data could be compromised without any recourse if they don't have telecommunications law in their extradition treaties.
There are network and file system extensions that'll encrypt anything headed out of hardware that you own. At least have your IT install that.
It's unfortunate this happened. But Apple's a high profile target, I was thinking awhile back that it's only a matter of time before something like this occurred.
That Apple has decided to approach it in the manner they have is encouraging. Yet it seems to me that it's going to be quite a project. It will be interesting to see how long it takes to get it up and running again.
As a side note, I read every post prior to mine. It's rather sad that the Apple faithful themselves are the ones that brought up Android and bashed the users. Funny how it's the insecure group that always bring up Android... when it has nothing to do with the current thread.
That Apple has decided to approach it in the manner they have is encouraging. Yet it seems to me that it's going to be quite a project. It will be interesting to see how long it takes to get it up and running again.
As a side note, I read every post prior to mine. It's rather sad that the Apple faithful themselves are the ones that brought up Android and bashed the users. Funny how it's the insecure group that always bring up Android... when it has nothing to do with the current thread.
It doesn't really make any difference. Both are currently unbreakable. 128 bit is considered unsafe for data that you want to keep safe for the next 50 years (like info about spy information that would be damaging if it was decrypted 50 years from now); but today the only way is to somehow get around the encryption.