October 3, 2012 at 00:49iTunes 10.7 tried to connect to the bogusapple.com domain
One of the Apple users noticed a strange thing the day before: when using iTunes, the Little Snitch firewall asked permission to establish a connection with the non-existent domain bogusapple.com, port 443.
The topic began to be discussed on the forum , and one of the Apple users gathered courage and registered this domain for himself.
The new owner of bogusapple.com has left a message for users of OS X Mountain Lion who will come to the site out of curiosity.
The owner of bogusapple.com, Jason Salaz, suggests that the glitch may have occurred due to a typo in the URL (bogusapple.com - bogus.apple.com). It was thought that iTunes specifically triggers an error for some of its software needs.
For comparison, in Windows 7, the Network Connectivity Status Indicator (NCSI) service checks for network access in this way by downloading a small text file www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt via HTTP and checking the msftncsi.com DNS record. If the domain does not resolve to the specified IP address, then NCSI displays a “No Internet access” message.
Apple, of course, did not comment on the situation, but soon corrected the codeby replacing bogusapple.com with metrics.mzstatic.com. It turns out that the mention of bogusapple.com was in HTML , which came to iTunes from the Apple server, so that they could quickly fix everything.
But it turns out that Apple, using a botnet of millions of computers, carried out a DDoS attack on a foreign website for almost a day. A joke, of course.
The topic began to be discussed on the forum , and one of the Apple users gathered courage and registered this domain for himself.
The new owner of bogusapple.com has left a message for users of OS X Mountain Lion who will come to the site out of curiosity.
Message
Hi! You're here because of some feature in OS X Mountain Lion that I'm incredibly curious about.
Does this page's existence make you as curious as this domain did to me? Get in touch with me!
- No, I didn't hack your computer.
- No, being here does not mean you did something wrong, or that something is broken.
- No, There's no malware on this site, there's not even an image, and I don't set cookies.
- I think Apple "tests the waters" by sending you to bogusapple.com to ensure it fails.
- Foolish idea, because any one can run it, and now I do :)
- Who am i? No one particularly important .
Does this page's existence make you as curious as this domain did to me? Get in touch with me!
The owner of bogusapple.com, Jason Salaz, suggests that the glitch may have occurred due to a typo in the URL (bogusapple.com - bogus.apple.com). It was thought that iTunes specifically triggers an error for some of its software needs.
For comparison, in Windows 7, the Network Connectivity Status Indicator (NCSI) service checks for network access in this way by downloading a small text file www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt via HTTP and checking the msftncsi.com DNS record. If the domain does not resolve to the specified IP address, then NCSI displays a “No Internet access” message.
Apple, of course, did not comment on the situation, but soon corrected the codeby replacing bogusapple.com with metrics.mzstatic.com. It turns out that the mention of bogusapple.com was in HTML , which came to iTunes from the Apple server, so that they could quickly fix everything.
But it turns out that Apple, using a botnet of millions of computers, carried out a DDoS attack on a foreign website for almost a day. A joke, of course.