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Apple Website Hacked

Apple developers' website has just being hacked.  This was reported by Apple to its developers on Thursday. Apparently Apple believes that even though developers information and credentials are encrypted, it is also possible for the attacker to have gotten his or her hands on some information. However, Apple noted that immediately this compromise was detected, the website was taken down.  Apple had this to say to her developers. "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 ...

How To Increase Your Google Account Security

We are in that age and era where cyber crime and account hijacking are on the increase.  So many a people have fallen prey to these attacks due to little knowledge on how to securely increase the security of their online accounts. A lot of people use more than 3 Google products ranging from Gmail, YouTube, Google+, Google Doc, Picasa and Google Wallet on a daily basis and these accounts are connected to online applications and websites. Invariably, if someone gets control of your Google password either directly or from other websites/applications, almost all Google services one uses becomes compromised: that would be a disaster. This post is to help Google account users to further increase security on said accounts and provide at least a greater level of account security than the uninformed individual. Although Google tries as much as possible to secure accounts of its users, still a little extra fortifying is better and won't hurt. Requirements 1. You have a Google acco...