macrumors

MacRumors

MacRumors.com screenshot (2008-04-24) URL http://www.macrumors.com/ Commercial? Yes Type of site News, information, and rumors related to Apple Inc. Owner MacRumors.com, LLC Created by Arnold Kim Launched 2000 Current status Active

In 2000, MacRumors appeared as an aggregator of Mac-related rumors and reports

around the Mac web. By consolidating reports and cross-referencing claims, MacRumors attempts to keep track of the rumor community. MacRumors is also home to one of the largest Mac-focused forum sites, with over 250,000 members and over 6,000,000 forum posts.[1] Users can find support for many Apple-related issues, as well as talk to other Mac users about other community and industry related issues. Their tagline is "News and Rumors You Care About."

In addition to providing rumors, news, and an active forum, MacRumors also serves as one of the most prominent sites for broadcasting live coverage of Apple announcements via MacRumorsLive.com. It is owned by Arnold Kim.[2] Contents [hide] 1 Traffic 2 Macworld 2009 coverage incident 3 References 4 See also 5 External links //

Traffic

As on 10th December 2008, according to Quantcast, MacRumors receives an average 33,458,145 page views globally per month, and 5,299,367 visitors per month globally. This puts it as the 492nd most visited site in the US - this is above Twitter.com (588th) and Hotmail.com (519th). [3]

Macworld 2009 coverage incident

During the Macworld 2009 keynote live coverage, the unprotected administrator interface to MacRumorsLive.com was hacked into and discovered, which

allowed people to disrupt the feed. The first non-related post, at 9.24am PST stated "STEVE JOBS JUST DIED". A few minutes later, the admins acknowloged the message and stated they didn't know how this entered the stream. This was quickly followed by hundreds more foul comments and language, and the feed was shut down. MacRumorsLive has since been taken offline.

In a statement following the incident, Arn stated: "The MacRumorsLive feed was compromised as described. The cause of the security breach is best described as "user error" due to admin files being inadvertently mirrored across multiple server instances with incorrect permissions. This allowed php code to be displayed rather than executed, which was clearly a "bad thing". Our actual admin panel is password protected, of course."[4]

References ^ Mac Forums - Mac News and Rumor Discussion ^ Stelter, Brian (2008-07-21). "My Son, the Blogger: An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors", New York Times. Retrieved on 11 August 2008. ^ Quantcast Audience Profile ^ Mac Forums - Arn's Statement following Macworld 2009 Hack