Apple has had its ups and its downs in the first two days of this work week.
Less than 48 hours after the company triumphed with its launch of Apple Watch and two new MacBook notebook PCs on March 9, its all-important Web storefronts were knocked offline for about 12 hours March 11 -- from about 2 a.m. until 2 p.m. Pacific time.
The most recent iTunes 12 release does not appear to contain any substantial modifications and, aside from a few user interface tweaks, remains largely unchanged from the last beta build released in September, which itself was a near carbon copy of the initial beta seeded in July .
Do you know how to ride a bicycle? It's easy, isn't it?
But do you remember how hard it turned out to be when you first tried? Who would have thought?
We often forget that many things are "obvious" only with experience, meaning, in fact, that they're not really obvious at all. That's why we do phishing walkthroughs fairly regularly on Naked Security. The idea is to step you through a typical email phish, pointing out the telltale warning signs in the original email and the web pages that follow, so you know what to look for in future.
Apple today launched iTunes Radio, the company's first foray into streaming music, as it upgraded iTunes to version 11.1 and its mobile operating system to iOS 7.
The Cupertino, Calif. consumer electronics giant unveiled iTunes Radio in June at its annual developers conference, where CEO Tim Cook and other executives highlighted the visual overhaul of iOS 7 and trumpeted a handful of new features, including iTunes Radio.
A Chinese group which has made it its mission to take a bite out of Apple’s iTunes revenue share is at it again, launching a full web version of its iOS app store jam-packed with pirated content.
Chinese language app Kuayiong was originally launched at the tail end of last year to fill the gap left by the equally dodgy jailbreak app Installous.
To help protect iTunes accounts from hackers, Apple recently required users to set up a few security questions and provide a backup email address. But some users aren't happy with the questions Apple asks.
According to The Register, members of Apple's support forums have been complaining that some of the questions are too difficult for the user to answer, while others are too easy for strangers to guess.
Earlier this week, The Global Mail called attention (via CNet) to an Apple Support Community thread with more than 70 pages of responses dating as far back as Nov. 2010.
According to the thread and others like it, numerous iTunes customers were victims of fraudulent app purchases that drained gift card credits from their accounts. Others reported charges to their PayPal or credit card accounts and changes to their account information.
For more than a year, iTunes users have been reporting on online Apple customer forums that their accounts have been hacked, their gift cards spent, their PayPal accounts used or their store credit exhausted.
iTunes logo Apple had been aware of a vulnerability in the iTunes update system, fixed in version 10.5.1 released in mid-November 2011, for more than three years. According to security expert Brian Krebs, who has seen email correspondence between the two parties, security researcher Francisco Amato informed Apple of the problem in summer 2008.
Apple has updated its iTunes software to correct a security shortcoming that offered the potential for miscreants to mount man-in-the-middle attacks and appears to have played a central role in the infamous Ghost Click botnet scam.
