Michael Kleeman quoted by New York Times on iPad security breach story
AT&T Said to Expose iPad Users
06/12/2010
Miguel Helft,
New York Times
A group of hackers said Wednesday that it had obtained the e-mail addresses of 114,000 owners of 3G Apple iPads, including those of military personnel, business executives and public figures, by exploiting a security hole on AT&T’s Web site.
The group, which calls itself Goatse Security and says it specializes in exposing security vulnerabilities, also obtained the identification number that those iPads use when they communicate over AT&T’s network, known as an ICC-ID, according to a member of the group who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity.
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Michael Kleeman is a senior fellow at IGCC and involved in several projects involving homeland security and critical infrastructure protection, including "Training and Exercises in California Homeland Security." He has also worked with the California Institute of Telecommunications and Internet Technology at UC San Diego on complex modeling, wireless technology applications, and complex visualization systems.
Kleeman appears in similar stories on the web:
- "Hole Discovered in AT&T Security, 3G iPad Owners’ Email Addresses Harvested" (Notebooks.com).
- "AT&T Confirms iPad Security Breach" (The Post Chronicle).
- "FBI probes iPad hacking incident" (Sacramento Business Journal).
- "Hackers Target AT&T iPad Users, Obtain 114,000 High Profile E-mail Addresses" (Switched).
