Last month Apple’s Developer Centre got hacked and the person who took it down was security researcher Ibrahim Balic and it is claimed that it was he who had actually highlighted some of the security flaws in the site. Thanks to these major flaws, Balic was able to crack into Apple’s system through which he not only gained full names, but IDs from the Cupertino-based company’s databases. However, in spite of pointing out the major flaws in Apple’s site, the California-based tech giant did not appreciate Balic for his effort. But eventually on Tuesday, August 20th Apple officially gave the credit the security researcher through its Server Notification page for highlighting issues with its developer portal.
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An information disclosure issue was addressed. We would like to acknowledge Ibrahim BALIC (Balich IT – http://www.balicbilisim.com) for reporting this issue.”
“In order to prevent a security threat like this from happening again, we’re completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database. We apologize for the significant inconvenience that our downtime has caused you and we expect to have the developer website up again soon.”
Although, currently Apple is overhauling its developer system to get rid of the security flaws, which Balic indicated, but initially when the security researcher sent his report to the iOS device maker the company did not respond immediately. After which Balic decided to post the details over YouTube and also talked about them over the micro-blogging site Twitter.
The video which Balic posted over YouTube has been taken down now. To the extent portal of Apple’s Developer Centre is concerned, when it went offline Apple informed the developers through email that its site has been hacked and also made it known that it is making a continuous effort to sort the security breach.
Finally on August 10th, Apple was able to restore its Developer Centre’s services. In addition to this, the company also gave one month extension to the members of the program due to the downtime of the site. This shows that even top tech company like Apple have loop holes in its security system. So imagine what a sharp hacker can do to the sites of other top ranked companies or sites.
It is time that companies should work round the clock and make their systems more strong, as they contain extremely sensitive information such as complete details of users or members.
Source: iPhoneinCanada
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