Apple to tighten online security after recent hack

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

NEW YORK (AP) — Apple plans to tighten its online security measures to reduce the chances of its users being victimized by intrusions like the ones that stole nude photos from actress Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities.

CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal in a story published Friday that Apple Inc. will use email and push notifications to alert the hundreds of millions of people using its services when there has been an attempt to restore their iCloud data on a new device, change an account password or log on to an account with a new device. Previously there were no notifications for restoring iCloud data, but users did receive an email when someone tried to change a password or log in for the first time from a new device.

Apple expects to start sending the additional notifications in two weeks. The iPhone maker said the new security will allow users to change passwords to reclaim control of an account or notify Apple's security team about a potential problem.

An Apple spokesman confirmed the report Friday but declined to comment further than what was said in the interview.

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[Stargazer09]

1. I should hope so!

I'm not a big fan of cloud computing anyway, but Apple needs to be more aggressive about protecting personal data.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Do folks who send out their most private information into a "cloud" lorded over by strangers who

say "trust us", yet at the same time can not tell you what a computer cloud is or how it is secured, or why precisely they trust these corporate folk so much, bear any responsibility at all?

Is it the digital representations of massive steel vaults in the ads to represent cloud storage that explains it enough for such folks?