Phishers target iTunes Store
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
May 21, 2008 at 10:59am
Phishers have targeted users of the iTunes Store with sophisticated identity theft attacks for the first time, according to Andrew Lochart, an executive with e-mail security vendor Proofpoint.
A link in the spam leads to a site posing as an iTunes billing update page; that phony page asks for information including credit card number and security code, Social Security number and mother’s maiden name, reports IDG.
The theft attempt is a new twist on the usual phishing attack, Lochart told IDG. “We’ve gotten used to seeing the usual companies and brands attacked,” he said, “like PayPal, eBay and Citibank. But we’ve never seen Apple as the target.”
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
