"The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website's address," IE cautions users. Like other top browsers, IE warns users when it encounters an insecure digital certificate. " 'Wild guesses and malicious blemish' will not help solve cyber issues," a ministry spokeswoman said, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency.
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17 on-sale launch there of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus - met with Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai in Beijing to discuss, among other things, security issues.Īlso today, China's Foreign Ministry denied that the government was behind the attacks, and instead implied that the man-in-middle attacks had been conducted by rogue hackers, as opposed to those employed by authorities. "We're aware of intermittent organized network attacks using insecure certificates to obtain user information," Apple stated.Įarlier today, Apple CEO Tim Cook - who is currently in China to press employee flesh after the Oct. Watchdog website alleged that Chinese authorities were behind the attack - the Party-controlled government heavily monitors and censors the Internet - to steal usernames and passwords, probably as a way to continue to spy on citizens who were using the more-secure iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, and who had upgraded their Macs to OS X Yosemite, which during installation asks users to encrypt their hard drives.Īpple acknowledged the man-in-the-middle attacks - which rely on squeezing into the online "conversation" between devices and website servers - but did not name the PRC. Like any browser, IE can connect to to manage storage space, use online versions of Apple's iWork productivity suite, add contacts and calendar entries, or view photos uploaded from an iPhone or iPad.Īpple published the warnings after reports surfaced in the PRC over the weekend of man-in-the-middle attacks targeting. For September, Net Applications estimated IE's user share in China at a whopping 91%, outstripping Chrome (at 7%), Firefox (0.9%) and Safari (0.8%) by massive margins. Rival analytics company Net Applications, which measures things differently - it tallies users, not page views - regularly pegs IE as China's most popular browser by far. According to Irish metrics firm StatCounter, 27% of the browsing activity in the PRC last month was on IE, second only to Chrome. IE, a vestige of the 1997 Apple-Microsoft partnership, hasn't been supported on OS X since 2005, when the latter told users to "migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Apple's Safari."īut IE is widely used in China on Windows-powered PCs. Those browsers are available in editions for iOS (Chrome only) and on the Mac (Chrome and Firefox).
Still, Apple included images of what Chrome and Firefox showed their users after the browsers tried to connect to a site secured by a bogus certificate.
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