Users need to beef up their iTunes passwords following second hack
It's been a second bad weekend for Apple Computer, following another alleged app-driven hack of its iTunes store. And, says Fortify Software, the software assurance specialist, iTunes users should now change the password on their iTunes account - upping their security by using a mixture of letters and numbers - as well as switching to a prepaid debit card for the service.
Over the weekend, reports have been coming in that a second developer has been using a similar approach to the Vietnamese group, which appears to have ramped a range of apps with similar names to the top of a section on the App store, said Barmak Meftah, Fortify's chief products officer.
"Over the 4th of July weekend, a Vietnamese group used the same strategy to ramp its apps to the top of the book charts on the App Store. This time around it seems it's the travel section that's been hit," he said.
