Fri, 19 Aug 2011

5:52 AM - How Vulnerable is Apple

For the protection of customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patches or releases are available. It seems like that Apple get seriously about security, that's a assurance for apple production users. Yet, problems always will occur.



Like the following cases, after these, can we still trust what they say? Especially for those business users, there is a serious risk existing.

The Anonymous hacker group Claimed Sunday that it had stolen a small number of internal passwords and user names from an Apple server. But as if that's is an uncertified announcement, which means no one can say it's truth or just made up by someone.

Let's continue, Anonymous claimed responsibility for the attack. It is reportedly working closely with hackers who belonged to Lulz Sec, the hacking group that said it was disbanding last week after 50 days of hacker havoc that included hacking sites such as PBS.org (Why they hack that?). The breach at Apple exposed 27 internal Apple usernames and passwords. As Apple users, what do we supposed to do? Nothing, just wait for apple to fix that, no matter what's the result, Apple productions are still our favorite(or not?).

On Twitter (I have a love-hate feeling to it), Anonymous said Apple could become a target (why is sound like a terrorist to me?), but for now the members were busy with other hacking targets. "Apple could be target, too. But don't worry, we are busy elsewhere," the group said (they are really busy). Earlier this month, Lulz Sec claimed it had breached Apple's iCloud servers, which operate the company's cloud music and photo service. But the group posted no evidence of the hack (that's what I'm saying, no evidence).



And another thing, as enterprise adoption rates for the iPad skyrocket, Apple has been forced to adjust its security thinking to placate its new business customers.

Just one problem: Employees won't be able to send encrypted email from their iPads, at least not yet. Blame Apple for an iPad email encryption capability that literally goes only halfway -- that is, to iPads but not from them. Apple says full email encryption will be coming in iOS 5, but in the meantime, users are stuck with a semi-solution.

"Symantec told us the problem is with Apple, they can't get the right interfaces into iOS," explains Wolfgang Krips, senior vice president of global IT infrastructure services at SAP. "It's not a deal killer but very serious, very frustrating." So goes the love-hate relationship CIOs have with Apple. Now the stakes are higher with iPads invading the enterprise at a meteoric rate. To be fair, Apple has responded recently to security concerns about its iOS. But does the company's newfound interest in enterprise security go far enough?


The attacks on Macs and Apple's response to them have stirred up new controversy in an ancient debate. Is OS X uniquely well protected from cybercrooks? As its market share increases, will it become a more enticing target? Are Mac users who don't use security software asking for trouble? Etc. Anyway, Apple knows its weakness and it is the first target for those hackers, what we can do is wait.(That's the reason I keep a distance with those high-tech stuff, not forbid, just have a limitation, or I just use some safe, easy functions like how to play quicktime video on ipad or how to convert mts to ipad on mac, just joking, if that's true…anyway it's not true)

tags: apple security ipad

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