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Goatse Security has been able to grab around 114,000 personal email addresses of iPad buyers from a major telecoms providers website. Some of the email address that have been leaked include White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, New York City Mayer Michael Bloomberg, Diane Sawyer of ABC News, and many CEOs, CFO, and CTO’s.

Some of the email addresses exposed even belonged to DARPA reesarchers and high-ranking military officials. Each iPad comes with an ICC-ID or an “integrated circuit card identifier.” The subscriber’s SIM card and ICC-ID are linked to uniquely identify them. Normally this data would not be publicly accessible.

 
Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Apple has just released a new version of the iPhone software, commonly known as iOS. Formerly known as iPhone OS, and the name change is not the only thing that comes packaged with this update.

Apple’s website, there is a list of 64 security holes which have now been fixed in new iOS. The component within the operating system which was the most vulnerable to attacks is WebKit. WebKit is the browser engine which powers safari on iDevices, and was the cause for 50 of the security patches. That’s three quarters of the errors fixed.