Fiber Optic Telecommunications Networks: Apple Boosts Security for Resetting Passwords After Hack

James F. Booth

For more than 25 years, James Booth has provided consulting and legal services to telecommunications carriers and to enterprise companies that manage their own telecommunications networks. Since June of 2009 he has also served as General Counsel of Spread Networks, LLC, which is the industry leader in the construction and operation of low latency high speed networks. Before joining Spread he was General Counsel for OnFiber Communications, a competitive telecommunications provider, and was the sole attorney for Qwest Communications International in support of its construction of an 18,800 mile fiber optic network spanning the United States. Earlier he was lead counsel for U S WEST in its wireless and cable television ventures in the United States, Europe and Hong Kong.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Apple Boosts Security for Resetting Passwords After Hack

Apple Inc. (AAPL) is beefing up security for resetting user passwords after a journalist wrote about a hack affecting his personal data, highlighting possible weaknesses in the system protecting more than 400 million user accounts. The company is temporarily suspending the ability to reset AppleID passwords over the phone while it takes steps to make the procedure more secure, said Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Cupertino, California-based Apple. Mat Honan, a reporter for Wired, wrote this week that hackers gained access to his account, erasing pictures and other data from his iPhone, iPad and MacBook, after resetting his password by phone. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-08/apple-to-beef-up-security-for-phone-password-resets-after-breach.html