iTunes under phishing attacks

Posted by greg
July 22, 2008

By Greg George
CEO
Spinal Cord Resources Network

Mailboxes have started to fill up with requests to go to a website and verify your iTunes account which has been under attack. According to the email, there have been too many attempts to access the account and that you will be highly restricted until you type in your iTunes login and password along with a credit card number and your mother’s maiden name. This should be an old tune for those used to watching hackers try to get personal information by using social engineering. Social Engineering is a person trying to gain access to something by pretending they know someone or something and want to give you something for it. In this case the hackers want to give you full access to your iTunes account back in return for personal data typed into a web page. If you get one of these emails you should mark it as spam and make sure it is deleted. Do not click on it if you are running Windows are Internet Explorer as the site may also include damaging content that allows hackers immediate control over your computer.

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