Adobe late Thursday reported a significant security breach in the company’s servers. Hackers reportedly gained access to the user IDs and encrypted financial information of 2.9 million customers, and stole the company’s source code for several applications.
More than three weeks after it was taken offline following a purported white hat hacking incident, the Apple Developer Center has been fully restored. The company announced the news via email early Saturday. Apple has been slowing bringing various portions of the site back online as it sought to rebuild its database and correct the security vulnerabilities that led to the initial hack. With Saturday’s news, all portions of the site have been restored. The Apple Dev Center is crucial…
In the wake of the Apple Developer Center hacking and subsequent extended outage, identity thieves are increasing efforts to take advantage of the situation through a new round of targeted phishing attempts. As noted by ZDNet, a spike in fake emails purporting to be from Apple are reaching consumers’ inboxes, asking them to click a link in order to restore access to their Apple account. Phishing is a practice used by hackers, spammers, and all manner of identity thieves to…
With the length of downtime for Apple’s Developer Center nearing a week, Apple has set up a status page to track the restoration of the center’s functions. Apple notified developers of the status via email this afternoon: We apologize for the significant inconvenience caused by our developer website downtime. We’ve been working around the clock to overhaul our developer systems, update our server software, and rebuild our entire database. While we complete the work to bring our systems back online,…
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Apple has thus far kept a consistent pace for its developer previews of OS X Mavericks and iOS 7. Since their first releases in the wake of WWDC last month, Apple has released new betas to registered developers every two weeks through the company’s developer center website. In keeping with the schedule thus far, today should see another round of releases. But it’s not likely to happen. Last week, developers noticed that Apple’s developer center was down. It’s not uncommon…
Watch Dogs is an upcoming open world adventure game which focuses on the player’s ability to fight (or cause) crime by hacking into a variety of electronic systems in a big city, such as pedestrian smartphones, ATM machines, and traffic lights. But according to the game’s senior producer, the “hacking” aspect of the game may be more realistic than first anticipated. Ubisoft Montreal’s Dominic Guay told the audience during a San Francisco press event for the game this week that…