 "Apple hires corporate security officer")
Apple Inc, amid a pitched battle with the US government over law enforcement's desire to crack into iPhones, has hired a new security executive to oversee its corporate digital defenses, people familiar with the matter said.
Apple appointed George Stathakopoulos, formerly vice president of information security at Amazon.com Inc and before that Microsoft Corp's general manager of product security, to be vice-president of corporate information security, the people said. Apple declined to comment on the new hire, but a reporter calling Apple and asking to speak with him was connected to a person answering "George's office".
