Security of Apple ID

I just received spam mail to the email address I use as my Apple ID.
I didn't use this email address for sending emails at all, ever.
So where did someone get (can get) that email address from?
edit:
didn't find a way to delete this post.
so:
I found one exception where I used this address for.

See Kappy's great User Tips.
See my User Tip for some help: Some Solutions for Resetting Forgotten Security Questions: Apple Support Communities https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4551
Rescue email address and how to reset Apple ID security questions
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5312
Send Apple an email request for help at: Apple - Support - iTunes Store - Contact Us http://www.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html
Call Apple Support in your country: Customer Service: Contacting Apple for support and service http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57
 Cheers, Tom

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HT5312 I do not remember the security answer apple ID.Please help.Thanks you!

I do not remember the security answer apple ID.Please help.Thanks you!

If you have a rescue email address (which is not the same thing as an alternate email address) set up on your account then steps 1 to 5 on the page that you posted from should let you reset them : go to https://appleid.apple.com/ and click 'Manage your Apple ID' on the right-hand side of that page and log into your account, then click on 'Password and Security' on the left-hand side of that page and on the right-hand side you should see an option to send security question reset info to your rescue email address.
If you don't have a rescue email address (you won't be able to add one until you can answer 2 of your questions) then you will need to contact iTunes Support / Apple to get the questions reset.
Contacting Apple about account security : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699
When they've been reset (and if you don't already have a rescue email address) you can then use the steps half-way down the page that you posted from to add a rescue email address for potential future use

What's the best way to secure an Apple TV unit?

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Some type of locking cabinet or drawer to put the unit in that leaves sufficient room for the cables to come out the back.
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Please activate my account, I do not speak much English speaking team in order to contact the security company Apple.

Please activate my account, I do not speak much English speaking team in order to contact the security company Apple
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We are users here just like yourself
We can do absolutely nothing activate your account
Try http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/

Please i need 2 Resetting security questions Apple ID

Resetting security questions Apple ID

Call Apple Support and state that you need to reset your security questions but do NOT have the reset link on your account. They will transfer you to Tech Support and even this person will not be able to fix it. Tech Support has to transfer you to Apple Security. NOTE: Only Tech Support can transfer you to Apple Security.
Apple Security will ask to verify personal information with you such as name, device serial number, email address associated to your account, your address, and if you have a credit card on file, if you don't have a credit file, which was my case because i had never purchased anything before, then you will have to AT LEAST be able to answer ONE of the security questions. I never the the pressure so much in my life since I was in school!
Anyways, once you verify all his questions, Apple Security will re-set your questions and you will be able to go back to your AppleID, log in, and re-enter your security questions/answers, add a recovery email address if you don't already have one, etc.

HT202447 is this dealing with the current "security" issues Apple is now addressing ?

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If Software Update reports that the update is available, it means that you are or have been running Java. Install it. It will remove the Flashback malware.
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I forgot security questions apple id

I forgot security questions apple id. please help me.

Call Apple to help reset your Security Question.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699

HT5312 Forgot security questions Apple Store and there is no email Alternate

FOrgot security questions Apple Store and there is no email Alternate

You need to ask Apple to reset your security questions; ways of contacting them include clicking here and picking a method for your country, phoning AppleCare and asking for the Account Security team, and filling out and submitting this form.
They wouldn't be security questions if they could be bypassed without Apple verifying your identity.
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I forget password a answer questuion security on apple id.

i forget password a answer questuion security on apple id.

If you forget Security Question
4th question from the bottom
http://support.apple.com/kb/HE37
If you forget Passcode
If you cannot remember the passcode, you will need to restore your device using the computer with which you last synced it. This allows you to reset your passcode and resync the data from the device (or restore from a backup).
If you restore on a different computer that was never synced with the device, you will be able to unlock the device for use and remove the passcode, but your data will not be present.
You may have to force iPad into Recovery Mode
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808

HT201303 i forgot my security question apple id

i forgot my security question apple id
what can i do ?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
You might try to see if you can change your security questions. Start here, change your country if necessary and go to manage your account > Password and Security.
I'm able to do this, others say they need to input answers to their current security questions in order to make changes, I'm inclined to think its worth a try, you don't have anything to lose.
If that doesn't help you might try contacting Apple through Express Lane (select your country, navigate to iCloud help and enter the serial number of one of your devices)

Can I use parted magic to secure erase Apple SSD?

Recently, I have bought Apple SSD128GB (Toshiba HG3 serie) to upgrade my MBP 15" early 2011. It's a second hand drive of my friend so I want to do secure erase by using Parted Magic for improving the performance as factory reset. I have heard about Parted Magic that it will do secure erase by sending ATA command to drive's controller (If I'm not wrong) but some people mentioned OS X Lion has Trim support that needs not to do secure erase. Now I don't know which ones is correct answer and can I use Parted Magic to secure erase this drive. Please give me your ideas.

I don't know, but I doubt it can be done using Disk Utility. I suggest you consult the user manual for it or see if there is a Reset option in the onscreen menues. If you don't have a manual, then you will find one at http://support.apple.com/manuals.

Need info about security, normal Apple events, & indicators of being hacked

I've been trying to learn more about signs of hackage because of odd behavior by my MBP. From what I've read, the consensus seems to be that the problems people experience and fear are hack-symptoms are more likely due to other reasons.
Here's the long story (for the short story, jump to the last paragraph): I've had Apple's on-board Firewall enabled since day one in Stealth Mode and all Sharing settings have always been Off. I recently test-drove a comprehensive 3rd party Firewall also but the log reported no suspicious attempts (aside from the normal amount of people just trying to connect or to piggyback on my bandwidth every .20th of a second that it's active). As the sole authorized user and sole resident in my home, I didn't config the system with myself as a User separate from the Admin account.
But I am having a recurring series of events that seems hack-like -- can anybody help me find the cause and a devise a fix?
Sometimes when I am online I notice a decline in my bandwidth -- based on the quality of my experience, not on a running monitor) for no apparent reason. When this occurs, I have learned to try two things: First, I Speed Test my ISP (sometimes it runs poorly); second, I disconnect and run Disk Utility. If my ISP isn't to blame, my Disk Utility's Permission Repair always reports the following (but, normally, permission repair has either no results or they are different, not security-related):
Repairing permissions for “XXX”
Determining correct file permissions.
Permissions differ on ./private/var/log/secure.log, should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r-----
Owner and group corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
Permissions corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
Maybe I'm being paranoid but the combination of my online-experience declining and the security-related perm reports generally seem to occur after the barrage of connection attempts from a single DNS stop for a longish period of time, as if there's been success at entry. Until this pattern emerged, I didn't feel vulnerable so I haven't kept records of these times/DNS/repair logs. Another puzzle-piece is that it happens when I've been running my computer for several days using only sleep mode, not full shut down; running a browser continuously (both on- and off-line) for most of that time; and especially after been online for a long time without disconnect.
I'm 98% certain that my secure.logs in Console once contained readable data but one recent day, just after I'd rashly renamed my connection node ScrewYouHacker, I disconnected/repaired (with report of same security changes) only to discover they had mysteriously (or totally coincidentally) become empty -- and my main secure.log plus several of the 5 secure.log.X.gz files became unavailable to me, reporting I (the admin account) didn't have permission to read them. I cannot remember if this was the case before or not but I believe at least one of the files contained data I could read.
My Activity Monitor reports:
4199 mdimport nobody 0.00 3 4.04 MB 44.98 MB Intel
273 usbmuxd nobody 0.00 2 432.00 KB 26.99 MB Intel
63 WindowServer windowserver 1.70 3 90.08 MB 454.81 MB Intel
There's a lot in the Logs I do recognize but lots and lots I'm not familiar with: For example, "nobody" is not the name of any of my drives/accounts/or any Apple event known to me, so causes me concern. I can post more of the stuff that makes me uncomfortable (such as pages being written from external drives during times I was connected but away from my sleeping cpu or when my connection trying to reestablish when I manually disconnect and with no data-seeking sites/apps running on my end) if any of this seems the result of invasion but I'm hoping a simpler explanation will put my mind at rest.
I Clone my entire System quarterly, and did so before I noticed any of this happening, but it was not specially password-protected so is probably just as compromised (or not) as any other available recently-mounted partition on my external drives. I manually back-up only changed files daily so quite likely don't have any retrievable System logs from this period to check or compare against.
To sum my question up in a few words: Does the cycle of bandwidth decline followed by that security-related permissions change imply invasion by hacker? If so, how can I trace what files/apps/devices have been compromised (read or taken)? If not, what does it imply and is a fix crucial (as in, typical Apple self-repair or sign of failing HD drive)? BTW, I'm running a secure wireless Novotel connection card on my MBP with 2gigs RAM.
Thank you all!

Thanks for the quick reply, rccharles.
I don't have a wireless network or a router. I connect via a Novotel Wireless modem/card -- wireless because it enables me to connect to the Sprint/Nextel 3G/4G network on their towers but it is a stand-alone USB device on my end. Multiple conversations with their tech staff assured me that it is not penetrable, in that my "bubble-of-connectivity" cannot be piggybacked upon by others nearby, although no password is used, because there is no network in the traditional sense. When I connect online, it's like making a cell-phone call (which isn't to say it's not hackable just that it's a different set-up). This seems to be supported by the fact that the incoming connection attempts I see on Console trace back to DNS locations all over the world not in my own dense neighborhood. I have no network name and my identity does not show up on the AirPort list with all of my neighbors. The SprintSmartView connection software is completely dumb (at least on the standard interface) because it clears all records upon disconnect (it doesn't even keep a running tally of overall connection time, or in/out loads, only displaying that data while connected during a single-session).
I can't switch to a cable connection because, as noted above, I already employ a hard, direct connection to my modem. For me, "wireless" refers to the provider method not my personal network. I haven't used a network for any service (music, printing, web) during this past year.
I realize you didn't suggest this, Robert, but I just wanted to mention that I have no other connection options -- I've never had cable tv and no longer have a landline so switching from my current method to something else isn't feasible. LittleSnitch probably is a good investment; still, I wish there was a Freeware equivalent.
RE usbmuxd: USB Multiplex Daemon. This bit of software is in charge of talking to your iPhone or iPod Touch over USB and coordinating access to its services by other applications: I do have an iPod but it's not a Touch model; don't have an iPhone -- my Palm mobile is my only non-Apple device, but it has touchscreen technology so that might correlate.
A web search of my Disk Utility Permissions Repair report phrasing didn't uncover enough information for me to determine if the frequent ./private/var/log/secure.log fixes indicate either an invasion or some impending System doom I could at this point prevent.
Here's another set of data that I don't know how to interpret -- but, because I was not using my sleeping but web-connected computer at the time (lid open; display and HD in sleep mode via Energy Saver settings; display calm, not showing any waking/sleeping/waking), the writing of pages/images seems strange (again, I have no automated backup software running):
Nov 19 18:14:18 pp-computer kernel[0]: Started CPU 01
Nov 19 18:14:18 pp-computer kernel[0]: IOBluetoothHCIController::restartShutdownWL this is a wake from sleep
Nov 19 18:14:18 pp-computer kernel[0]: System Wake
Nov 19 18:14:18 pp-computer kernel[0]: IOUSBWorkLoop::closeGate - interrupt Thread being held off
Nov 19 18:15:08 pp-computer kernel[0]: hibernate image path: /var/vm/sleepimage
Nov 19 18:15:08 pp-computer kernel[0]: sizeof(IOHibernateImageHeader) == 512
Nov 19 18:15:08 pp-computer kernel[0]: Opened file /var/vm/sleepimage, size 2147483648, partition base 0xc805000, maxio 400000
Nov 19 18:15:08 pp-computer kernel[0]: hibernate image major 14, minor 2, blocksize 512, pollers 3
Nov 19 18:15:08 pp-computer kernel[0]: hibernateallocpages flags 00000000, gobbling 0 pages
Nov 19 18:16:28 pp-computer kernel[0]: System SafeSleep
Nov 19 18:16:31 pp-computer kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall start
Nov 19 18:16:31 pp-computer kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall time: 205 ms
Nov 19 18:16:31 pp-computer kernel[0]: pages 517541, wire 69979, act 276409, inact 65477, zf 1638, could discard act 19572 inact 84466
Nov 19 18:16:31 pp-computer kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall found pageCount 517541
Nov 19 18:16:31 pp-computer kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen, mlget_interruptsenabled 0
Nov 19 18:16:31 pp-computer kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)
Nov 19 18:16:31 pp-computer kernel[0]: writing 516171 pages
Nov 19 18:16:31 pp-computer kernel[0]: image1Size 118063104
Nov 19 18:16:31 pp-computer kernel[0]: all time: 19946 ms, comp time: 3087 ms, deco time: 0 ms,
Nov 19 18:16:31 pp-computer kernel[0]: image 875999232, uncompressed 1688096768 (412133), compressed 868350256 (51%), sum1 79756835, sum2 bb29c145
Nov 19 18:16:31 pp-computer kernel[0]: hibernatewriteimage done(0)
Nov 19 18:16:31 pp-computer kernel[0]: sleep
Nov 19 18:16:31 pp-computer kernel[0]: IOUSBWorkLoop::closeGate - interrupt Thread being held offEnabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes
Nov 19 18:16:31 pp-computer kernel[0]: Started CPU 01
Nov 19 18:16:31 pp-computer kernel[0]: IOBluetoothHCIController::restartShutdownWL this is a wake from sleep
My MBP has no obvious problems with Sleep or Wake, as seems to be the most common complaints connected to much of this language. This type of cycle reported constantly from the whole 3hour block I was not using the CPU. Since my modem is a USB device, maybe that is keeping things cycling even though the display appears asleep (off, not screen saver mode) and hard disk is definitely asleep (per sound & temperature)? I should add to my previous disclosure that I have a Bluetooth Apple mouse, among other devices, and my BT settings have been on Discoverable, which didn't seem to make me vulnerable but I've since turned that off since all my devices are paired. I assumed for everything that was paired with my MBP, the device name would appear in my Allowable list...
Thanks BDAqua -- just saw your post. That puts my mind at rest. What else, if anything, should I be looking at to confirm integrity? Is Apple's Firewall enough or is a 3rd party package really a necessity?

WLAN Security, Is Apple OSX Safer at public sites?

Hi, I am opening this up for a technical discussion for people that actually know the answers, Apple Techs please!
In the article
http://www.lanarchitect.net/Articles/Wireless/SecurityRating/
It leads you to believe only WEP enabled WLAN connections should be used, but in reality I am not that concerened about a neighbor piggy backing my home WLAN as I am concerned about some AH hacker stealing my personnal internet passwords and such, either at home but more of concern at hotel WLAN, public hot spots and now the fake mirror hot spots that are being used for cyber mining for credit card and other financial info.
My Question is this, is Apple OSX protected enough so that if by some accident you did connect it to a fake but working WLAN for internet use, can it be hacked without me knowing it? And part two, are passwords easy to get when using a 128 bit encrypted browser at https web sites like yahoo mail login, or a cradit card login site? In other words how much info can be stolen through the WLAN "airport on" state of the Mac and when is internet info at most risk? Are https login sites safe for passwords? I assume once you are in, and the site goes to http that all interent data is now easy to see? Or is the web browser still protecting it via 128 bit encryptiion? Thanks for any tech support only anwsers to this.
Ti PB 550 Mac OS X (10.3.9) netscape 7.2

Any time you use a public wireless access node that provides no security then your computer is vulnerable. The likelihood of being hacked, however, is probably extremely low, but you can take some precaution by enabling the built-in firewall (Sharing preference pane.) You can also avoid sending anything that contains sensitive information you may not wish compromised when accessing a public WiFi node.
Many hotels that offer wireless access are usually behind routers and/or require local access authorization for guests only. But not all do.
As for protected networks Apple recommends using WPA2 rather than WEP because the latter is less compatible with Macs and is also an older technology.
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Security questions apple I'd

Hello, I cannot remember my security questions, therefore I cannot change the apple I'd or edit my Infos. How can I proceed?
Thank you

Click here for information. If the option to have the answers emailed to you isn't available or doesn't work(the email may take a few hours to arrive), contact the iTunes Store staff via the link in that article.
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Can't answer security questions; Apple locks my ID again after giving a second email address

I followed Neil's instructions, but could get the problem solved after providing an alternate email address.

The Three Best Alternatives for Security Questions and Rescue Mail
     1. Send Apple an email request at: Apple - Support - iTunes Store - Contact Us.
     2. Call Apple Support in your country: Customer Service: Contact Apple support.
     3. Rescue email address and how to reset Apple ID security questions.
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