Apple, Facebook and Twitter have all openly been hacked

Summary: Over the past few weeks, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter have publicly said they have been hacked, with Twitter leaking 250,000 of users after it was hacked. Today AllThingsD claims that the common denominator of these hacking incidents is that they are all browsing the same

Over the past few weeks, Apple, Facebook and Twitter have publicly said they have been hacked, with Twitter leaking 250,000 of users after it was hacked. Today AllThingsD claims that the common denominator of these hacking incidents is that they all went wrong after the company's employees browsed the same site.

This site is IPHONEDEVSDK, a place where mobile developers share experience. According to a Facebook survey of the leaks last week, an employee who visited the site had a Java-embedded Trojan code in the HTML of the site that hacked into the employee's notebook. So far, Apple, Facebook and Twitter have declined to comment on the argument.

AllThingsD, who interviewed Facebook's chief security officer Sullivan, said that now everyone knows about phishing attacks, but it's interesting to attack individual sites rather than individual users. This kind of attack is called "watering hole", the effect is to be compared to give each person turns poison, as the direct drug in the water place. The attacks, which took place last December, were the site of the Foreign Relations Committee.

If IPHONEDEVSDK is just a technology site is just, technology companies poisoned their own will have a way to solve, but this site in the non-technology companies also have a certain impact, perhaps a lot of companies have unwittingly been in the gun, but they do not know or do not want to publicly admit.