Things have been crazy enough lately that some of the bigger possibilities for the Crisis have been set aside. The data wars is one which might be back.
Just ahead of the launch of the iPhone 6 in China, there is a lot of activity that is attempting to get people to divulge their iCloud account information. The strategy is to set up pages that look like the real page, pass information along to the real page, but allow the attacker to view (and store for eventual use) what is being passed. Apple has posted a page that describes how to tell a man-in-the-middle attack like this one. (Short answer: Ensure https and its associated the security indicators are working properly.)
These sort of events continue to happen, and seem to be happening more frequently. Which does suggest that it will continue to get worse, until something happens to make it better. The question is, will that eventual improvement be something small, or something....bigger.
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