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Yet another Malware sighting, and this one disguised itself as “System Care AntiVirus”. I use both Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and Microsoft Security Essentials to get rid it. Internet Explorer seems to be the entry point of this Malware on this particular computer.
Apparently part of Warner Brothers websites was compromised and used to spread malware. I stumbled upon this when I went to Pacific Rim Movie website (http://www.pacificrimmovie.com/) using Google Chrome.
By the way I have not watched Pacific Rim or any movies released this year in the theater.
There has been a lot of Phishing email for the past week and this one pretending to be coming from Google Apps.
Should you be receiving this type of phishing email, do not click on the link under any circumstances.
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Apple has sent email out to developers informing that All Apple Developer Center is Back Online. In addition to that Apple has extended all paid developer membership by 30 days.
It has been one week since Apple took down its Developer Center Website due to security intrusion. At this point most of Apple Developer Center is back online including iOS and Mac Dev Centers. Apple developers with expiring paid memberships are given some extra time to renew since Program Enrollment and Renewals section of the website is still not operational.
Apple iOS team is reportedly ready to distribute the next iOS 7 beta sometimes early next week.
Apple has created status page for its Developer Website as reveal in emails sent to registered Apple Developer.
Apple Developer System Status Update
We apologize for the significant inconvenience caused by our developer website downtime. We’ve been working around the clock to overhaul our developer systems, update our server software, and rebuild our entire database. While we complete the work to bring our systems back online, we want to share the latest with you.
We plan to roll out our updated systems, starting with Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles, Apple Developer Forums, Bug Reporter, pre-release developer libraries, and videos first. Next, we will restore software downloads, so that the latest betas of iOS 7, Xcode 5, and OS X Mavericks will once again be available to program members. We’ll then bring the remaining systems online. To keep you up to date on our progress, we’ve created a status page to display the availability of our systems.
If your program membership is set to expire during this period, it will be extended and your app will remain on the App Store. If you have any other concerns about your account, please contact us.
Thank you for your continued patience.
As of this posting, Bug Reporter has just gone online.
Apple took down its Developer Website due to a hacking attempt on late Thursday July 18, 2013. Ibrahim Balic, a Turkish security researcher, believes that he is responsible for the intrusion that resulted in the downtime at Apple Developer Center.
While Apple is working to bring the Developer Webcite back online, Apple seeded OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 4 through Software Update. Apple has yet seeded iOS 7 beta 4 which was expected for release on Monday July 22, 2013 for its previous two-week release cycle. Apple has the mean to distribute iOS 7 beta 4 via Over The Air (OTA) software update. Apple prefers to distribute iOS 7 beta ipsw to developers along the OTA software update.
Apple has sent out emails to Apple Developers explaining the outage of Apple Developer Website.
Apple Developer Website Update
Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website. Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed. In the spirit of transparency, we want to inform you of the issue. We took the site down immediately on Thursday and have been working around the clock since then.
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.
It is indeed bad news, since there is no way of telling if the intruder managed to access any informations.
Apple is using its own Apple ID service for Developer login, which has been fully operational during this period. It seems that the hacking attempt only happened on Apple Developer Website.