Ipad's Security Breach
iPad’s Security Breach
Meredith Morrison
Strayer University
BUS 508 [ November 26, 2012 ]
Dr. Ronald Steffel
The Goatse Security firm’s possible objectives when they hacked into AT&T’s Website was to test for security. If they could hack into the system, so can any other hacker (iPad Security Breach, 2010). The Goatse Security firm wanted to confirm that if they could gather e-mail addresses, discovering vulnerability, so can people who are hackers. “We’ve reached out to the security group that first discovered the vulnerability, and have asked for a statement. We’re waiting to hear back,” said the FBI Investigating iPad breach in an update (The Wall Street Journal, 2010). AT&T was reaching out to iPad users, and was blaming the incident on computer hackers who were maliciously trying to speed up the process of “logging into its website (The Wall Street Journal, 2010). AT&T said that they take their customers privacy seriously, and does not want unauthorized users to be able to access company information. The Goatse Security firm uncovered the mistake, and then handed the result over to Gawker Media LLC. A member of the group with Gawker media LLC said it took AT&T to long to inform customers of the security breach (The Wall Street Journal, 2010). “If not for our firm talking about the exploit to third parties who subsequently notified them, they would never have fixed it,” the board member whos name is Escher Auernheimer said. “We know what we did was right” (The Wall Street Journal, 2010). The Goatse Security firm said that only the e-mail addresses of people were identified, and that no other information was a threat to them (The Wall Street Journal, 2010). The incident was blamed on malicious’ hackers, and AT&T warned users to be wary of revealing personal data. The attacks are known as “phishing,” and are disguised as being a trusted source (The Wall Street Journal, 2010). The FBI
Meredith Morrison
Strayer University
BUS 508 [ November 26, 2012 ]
Dr. Ronald Steffel
The Goatse Security firm’s possible objectives when they hacked into AT&T’s Website was to test for security. If they could hack into the system, so can any other hacker (iPad Security Breach, 2010). The Goatse Security firm wanted to confirm that if they could gather e-mail addresses, discovering vulnerability, so can people who are hackers. “We’ve reached out to the security group that first discovered the vulnerability, and have asked for a statement. We’re waiting to hear back,” said the FBI Investigating iPad breach in an update (The Wall Street Journal, 2010). AT&T was reaching out to iPad users, and was blaming the incident on computer hackers who were maliciously trying to speed up the process of “logging into its website (The Wall Street Journal, 2010). AT&T said that they take their customers privacy seriously, and does not want unauthorized users to be able to access company information. The Goatse Security firm uncovered the mistake, and then handed the result over to Gawker Media LLC. A member of the group with Gawker media LLC said it took AT&T to long to inform customers of the security breach (The Wall Street Journal, 2010). “If not for our firm talking about the exploit to third parties who subsequently notified them, they would never have fixed it,” the board member whos name is Escher Auernheimer said. “We know what we did was right” (The Wall Street Journal, 2010). The Goatse Security firm said that only the e-mail addresses of people were identified, and that no other information was a threat to them (The Wall Street Journal, 2010). The incident was blamed on malicious’ hackers, and AT&T warned users to be wary of revealing personal data. The attacks are known as “phishing,” and are disguised as being a trusted source (The Wall Street Journal, 2010). The FBI
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