APPLE support doc CONFIRMS ‘ORGANIZED NETWORK ATTACKS’

The Register | Oct 22, 2014

Apple is warning its iCloud users over heightened spying risks following the discovery of attacks which security watchers have claimed are down to crude snooping by the Chinese government.

Steve Hultquist, chief evangelist at network visibility and analytics firm RedSeal, opined: “China uses a nationwide firewall system through which they force all internet traffic to pass so they can filter both what enters and what leaves China.”