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Weather Discussion => Hardware Software and Technology => General Computing => Topic started by: Deano on August 09, 2012, 02:41:03 PM
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The recent hacking of Mat Honan was doubly shocking: he's a writer for tech Bible Wired, and hackers were able to crack his accounts with non-technical ease.
Here's the scariest part: Anyone with both an Amazon account and an Apple ID is potentially vulnerable to the same attack.
The two companies say they're working to close the security gaps exposed by Honan's hack, but they were tight-lipped on Tuesday about the details of what changes they're making.
Honan's harrowing tale, which he chronicled in a detailed story for Wired late Monday, explains how a Friday-night hack quickly snowballed and took down many of his digital accounts: Amazon, Apple iCloud, Gmail and Twitter, plus the data on his three Apple devices.
Read the article below.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/07/technology/mat-honan-hacked/index.htm?cnn=yes&hpt=hp_bn1 (http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/07/technology/mat-honan-hacked/index.htm?cnn=yes&hpt=hp_bn1)