Security issues at Apple & Amazon

[Addison D.]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 2:40pm

There is an unsettling account over at Wired.com about a guy whose digital privacy was massively hacked due to disturbing security lapses at Amazon.com & Apple.

Just one piece of the chain of blatant inadequacy:

"It turns out, a billing address and the last four digits of a credit card number are the only two pieces of information ANYONE needs to get into YOUR iCloud account. Once supplied, Apple will issue a temporary password, and that password grants access to iCloud."

Yikes...




"My Epic Hacking"

[artscallion]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 2:47pm

That article is a year old, Ad.

[Addison D.]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 3:06pm

Hunh? What year is it????

Seriously--right you are. It just got forwarded to me by my IT consultant. I wonder if that's a bad sign??? lol...

[artscallion]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 3:12pm

haha! It could still be relevant info. But a year is loooong time in online security land.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 3:59pm

How would any intelligent person think that something called a "cloud" is private?

There will never be any privacy on the World Wide Web.

[Addison D.]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 4:12pm

^^^ It seems so obvious, doesn't it?

I do store documents on the cloud, but with the belief that I am, in essence, using a filing cabinet with a relatively flimsy lock in a very public storage facility.

In a brick and mortar world, however, use of such a storage facility makes vulnerable only those documents that I choose to store there.

What is alarming to me is the thought that a cloud account provides a potential conduit to the digital documents that--due to the sensitivity of their contents--I have NOT stored in the cloud in the first place.

The only (relatively) "secure" option is hard copies in a locked file cabinet in my home--which is precisely the clutter I had hoped technology would abolish.