14 DAY TRIAL // Apple has updated its Web Server notifications page to credit several security experts and / or IT groups for discovering and reporting flaws embedded in the company’s web services.
One of the people named in the most recent listing is none other than Ibrahim Balic, the Turkish security buff who claimed to have single handedly caused the Apple Dev Center (and all its services) to go down.
While Apple does credit Balic for reporting flaws within the company’s iAd Workbench portal (iadworkbench.apple.com), it was actually 7dscan.com, and SCANV (of www.knownsec.com) who reported Dev Center flaws to the Mac maker.
If the listings aren’t enough to convince you, then Matthew Panzarino’s sources just might be.
"My sources confirm that Balic’s report is not responsible for the outage. The issue that Balic reported had nothing to do with why Apple took down the developer center. That was a completely separate vulnerability."
It isn’t clear whether Balic actually thought he was responsible for the Dev Center downtime, or whether he actually was responsible, but the saying "15 minutes of fame" certainly seems to bode well for these new disclosures.
Plus, security researchers are notorious for having an unquenched thirst to get credited by the likes of Apple, Google, and Microsoft. You decide.