AT&T Apologizes to iPad Customers, We Reveal Hackers' Locales

Group says Apple and AT&T are threatening national security and customers with their negligence

Editor’s note: Ansel Halliburton is a lawyer at ComputerLaw Group, a boutique law firm in Palo Alto specializing in intellectual property litigation and entrepreneurship. Follow him on Twitter. In the summer of 2010, a group called Goatse Security (or GoatSec) discovered a security hole in an AT&T website catering to users of the recently launched iPad with 3G connectivity.

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Log audit reveals developer outsourced his job to China

Log analysis can reveal a lot of security mistakes and fails, but a lot of security sins, too.

Take for example the incident recently shared by Verizon's Risk Team: called in by a critical infrastructure company to investigate what seemed to be a breach of its networks by the hands of Chinese-based hac

Sony has outlined details of the ‘Welcome Back’ pack offered to PlayStation Network (PSN) customers affected by the security breach which occurred last month. Customers get to pick two old games from a list of five, while hackers get your details.

Hackers are hard at work trying to dupe iPad owners to install a malware-loaded iTunes update on their Windows PCs.

Hackers are hard at work trying to dupe iPad owners to install a malware-loaded iTunes update on their Windows PCs.

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I own an iPad 3 at this moment and I'm really thinking on selling it... to get a Nexus 10. I went to one of my clients last week and this is what happened... He gave me a usb drive with the info for the job and I couldn't take it with me. The iPad doesn't have a USB port. My client had a Galaxy tablet and showed me how easy it was with it. I looked my iPad and said...

The wait for an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1 is finally over, with French hacker Pod2G and the Dev Team hackers releasing a jailbreak tool called “Absinthe”, which is indeed a form of “greenpois0n”.

It was nigh on half a decade ago that I first met the fell demon they call Goatse.cx. It haunted my dreams – the ring, the red, the evident pleasure – and even today I am loath to type in those five consonants and three vowels without a shudder.