Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed

["David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>]

OTOH: 

Apple's worst security breach, or a great big hyperbole?
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/duck/g/2010/06/10/apples-worst-security-breach/

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David Harley BA CISSP FBCS CITP
ESET Research Fellow

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org 
> [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Juha-Matti Laurio
> Sent: 10 June 2010 11:34
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: [funsec] Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 
> iPad owners exposed
>
> "Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach 
> has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military 
> officials, and top politicians.
> They-and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled 
> tablet-could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.
>
> The breach, which comes just weeks after an Apple employee 
> lost an iPhone prototype in a bar,
> exposed the most exclusive email list on the planet, a 
> collection of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers that includes 
> thousands of A-listers in finance,
> politics and media, from New York Times Co. CEO Janet 
> Robinson to Diane Sawyer of ABC News to film mogul Harvey Weinstein
> to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It even appears that White House 
> Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's information was compromised."
>
> http://gawker.com/5559346/apples-worst-security-breach-114000-
> ipad-owners-exposed?skyline=true&s=i
>
> Juha-Matti
>
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