He started testing/submitting bugs to Apple on July 16, then on July 18 Balic reported the bug the same day users first started reporting downtime for Apples Dev Center.
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New Details Emerge on Security Researcher Potentially Responsible for Dev Center Outage
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He started testing/submitting bugs to Apple on July 16, then on July 18 Balic reported the bug the same day users first started reporting downtime for Apples Dev Center.
A more likely scenario, they noticed the intrusion and shut it down immediately.
Its highly unlikely he gave them enough time to respond when it shows the same day or few days he submitted the bug report or even after to cover his butt.
Takes time for an investigation to see how much the website was compromised, who was responsible and if this so called security researcher was legitimate in his claims.
If that was really the case, which is very suspicious, it was his own doing. Hacking into websites for notoriety, new job prospects, CNN coverage, makes this very suspect.
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This guy is definitely in over his head. His actions can be prosecuted, and ignorance of the law isn't a very good defense when you're talking about breaking into systems. He's also lucky he didn't stumble into any financial information systems while doing all this or he could be charged with another set of crimes. Going on CNN certainly isn't going to help any of this either.
... lol, I can see someone else is over his head....
Apple should respond why they shut down their service. The fact that they are not indicates that they had an issue beyond Balic, and at this point I would guess that Balic's public disclosure made someone at Apple panic, particularly with the Quarterly Call coming up.
So now nobody at Apple is talking and everyone is covering their behinds.
As far as security issues are concerned, no one will talk officially about the details until the issues are dealt with. A generic statement about the effects of the issue is usually made, and sometimes general updates are provided if deemed necessary, but that's about it until afterwards. It's pretty much a standard practice everywhere and make sense.
Looks like there is a new update from Apple: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1613969/
The new message is up on the dev center web site at http://devimages.apple.com/maintenance/
The new message is up on the dev center web site at http://devimages.apple.com/maintenance/