Security & Privacy

In the past couple of days, we’ve been seeing a lot of spam purporting to come from the Apple Store. As you can see below, this spam is pretty primitive; it doesn’t look anything like Apple’s standard layout, and gives little information. In addition, it’s not even seriously dangerous: unlike phishing attempts, the link on this message doesn’t lead you to a page where you enter your name and password. It simply takes you to a “Canadian Pharmacy” website, where you can order “medications”, such as Viagra (which is most certainly bogus).

This spam is certainly taking advantage of the buzz around the iPad, as well as Apple’s general good health. So be aware: if you receive an unexpected e-mail, hover your cursor over the links it contains to see if they go to the site in question. As you can see above, this is not the case.