Mac OS Ken: 07.22.2013

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 997 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2013

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Apple Updating Developer Site After Intruder Alert and Possible Information Loss 9 to 5 Mac: And the Intruder May Be... SIM Card Vulnerability Could Lead to Identity Theft and Eavesdropping Apple Releases Software Update for New MacBook Air Best Buy Cuts $200 to $300 Off of Some 13-Inch MacBook Pros in Back to School Promotion Apple Buys Crowdsourced Mapping Service Locationary Apple Buys Transit App Hopstop All Things D: Don’t Forget Verizon Has to Pay Apple $23.5B for iPhones This Year Report: Apple and Samsung Were Close to Settlement Five Months Ago WSJ: Apple Asks Suppliers for Bigger Screens and Smaller Screens That May Be for Nothing

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKIN.
0:10.0	developer site down. Mac OSKIN. Can. Developer site Down, someone may be spying through your Sim card, and Apple makes mapping moves.
0:19.8	It's Monday, July 22nd, 2013, I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from MacO S. Ken.
0:27.0	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you, subscribers to MacOS Ken Day 6.
0:35.0	More information is available at MacOS Ken.com.
0:40.0	This show is also supported by the Mac OS can Podcast App for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch,
0:47.0	available in the App Store now for $2.99. Thursday night I started to pick up on notices that Apple's developer site was
0:56.6	offline for maintenance for what seemed a really long time.
1:01.3	Not being one regularly accessed Apple's developer, I didn't feel like it's
1:05.0	say whether it really was a long time, or if this was just a case of people feeling as if
1:09.9	access to something they wanted or needed was taking forever.
1:15.0	As of this writing, the developer site is still down,
1:18.0	and now we know why.
1:20.0	A number of listeners, members of Apple's developer program, sent me a copy of the email that Apple sent them on Sunday,
1:26.6	letting them know that the developer site had been hacked.
1:29.8	Well, visited by an intruder, to put it in more genteel terms, and perhaps more accurate terms.
1:37.0	More on that in a bit.
1:39.0	Quoting Apple's email, last Thursday an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered
1:45.4	developers from our developer website. Sensitive personal information was encrypted and
1:51.0	cannot be accessed, however we have not been able to rule out the possibility
1:55.3	that some developer's names, mailing addresses, and or email addresses may have been
2:00.6	accessed. In the spirit of transparency, we want to inform you of the issue.
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