Looking for a new MacBook turned thoughts to Meltdown and Spectre, and our response to recent appearance of new malware. We need better protection of some key folders.
malware
Sometimes you don’t know of a silent update until an app misbehaves or crashes. One day, the innocent-looking plist tucked away in a LaunchAgents folder could be malicious.
Apple is in the process of pushing an update to its malware removal tool, MRT, bringing it to […]
Have you used an online update service in the past? After last week’s security breach at MacUpdate, now is the time to stop. For your own protection.
Did you download and install any Mac software from the MacUpdate site on the first or second of […]
With XProtect and MRT providing such extensive protection against malware, who could possibly need anything else? Where could they possibly fall short?
A detailed listing of malware currently blocked or removed by Apple’s tools built into macOS from El Capitan onwards.
Apple has just pushed the first updates of 2018 for two of the security tools built into OS […]
Patrick Wardle, of Objective-See, has just reported what he believes to be new malware running on macOS, which […]
For the moment, until Apple pushes a future update to bring it to version 1.28 at least, your […]
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