As clever as it is, wiping his Ipad, Macbook AND his Iphone is just being a dick.
Goes to show that while cloud storage is incredibly handy, it should never be used as a permanent storage solution without having plenty of backups everywhere. The compromised Gmail and Twitter accounts are very worrisome though.
[editline]6th August 2012[/editline]
[quote]Mr Honan has been able to find out exactly what happened because one of his attackers, a member of a hacking group called Clan Vv3, got in touch and told him how they did it.[/quote]
A true magician [I]never[/I] reveals his secrets.
that'd suck especially if he had a lot of photos on it now irretrievable
People ask me why i have so many hard drives.
Because this. At least you can try to recover a hard drive.
You guys don't need to be that paranoid, this wasn't some sort of mass server unexpected deletion, it was a couple of jerks who filled for someones iCloud to be wiped claiming it was the owner.
Apple will investigate and further go towards a more secure option of reclaiming data.
On the otherhand, skydrive, dropbox and iCloud work amazingly well, from my perspective saving all my school work to skydrive has been extremely useful when I'm working from my windows phone, home PC and my laptop with my school notes on onenote and other documents (excel, word etc.)
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;37104199]You guys don't need to be that paranoid, this wasn't some sort of mass server unexpected deletion, it was a couple of jerks who filled for someones iCloud to be wiped claiming it was the owner.
Apple will investigate and further go towards a more secure option of reclaiming data.
On the otherhand, skydrive, dropbox and iCloud work amazingly well, from my perspective saving all my school work to skydrive has been extremely useful when I'm working from my windows phone, home PC and my laptop with my school notes on onenote and other documents (excel, word etc.)[/QUOTE]
everyone involved will end up fired
unless they are still holding a grudge in that case then they will do nothing until the lawsuits start flying
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;37104079]And this is why I refuse to use cloud data storage.[/QUOTE]
I don't refuse to use cloud storage, I'm personally in love with Dropbox, but it shoudn't be used as a primary means of storage. Most of my important stuff is on two HDDs and Dropbox. My super important stuff is kept in an encrypted USB drive and CD in a safety deposit box.
I like how it goes from "Someone's iCloud was hacked" to "The dangers of cloud based storage" in a line or so
Like if iCloud being bad at security automatically makes every other cloud storage service also bad at security
A good security measure is making whoever wants to gain access to your data's life hard enough by using multiple different unconnected services with different passwords.
I use cloudstorage only as a way to efficiently send photos taken from my phone, to my PC and or other people.
[editline]6th August 2012[/editline]
Works wonderfully for that.
There's more than just one cloud int he sky.
I'll accept to the use of the cloud however the central data vault must be in my home where things such as the backups are my responsibility.
It's a shame that so many people discussing this article (Not here on FP, but other sites) are placing so much blame on Apple support and saying they should be fired. If a person calls up, sounds confident and has all the right information by getting it off social networking sites (Like, your mothers maiden name, etc) then how is the employee going to know any better?
It's the danger of having so much personal information online, that you can get away with virtual identity fraud.
[QUOTE=WaLLy3K;37113353]It's a shame that so many people discussing this article (Not here on FP, but other sites) are placing so much blame on Apple support and saying they should be fired. If a person calls up, sounds confident and has all the right information by getting it off social networking sites (Like, your mothers maiden name, etc) then how is the employee going to know any better?
It's the danger of having so much personal information online, that you can get away with virtual identity fraud.[/QUOTE]
The support people definitely shouldn't lose their jobs over it. It's not their fault that someone got the information they use to verify someone else's identity. They most likely just went through the entire process they were trained to do. Their policy needs to be changed is all.
I wouldn't be surprised if he just guessed the journalist's password or the journalist was stupid enough to get phished and now they're blowing it completely out of proportion as "hacking"
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nevermind, I just read the article
This is why I have my own fileserver :v:
People are mistaking a security system along the lines of Prey for cloud-based storage purely because of a shared name.
Social engineering isnt hacking.
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