Roundup of recent Mac news, looking particularly at two new varieties of malware, and how widespread and threatening they are.
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Maybe malware is always going to come in threes. Hot on the heels of the recent announcement of […]
Bitdefender Labs has announced the detection of new Mac malware, dubbed Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor, which can bypass built-in security in […]
Coupled with FileVault’s whole disk encryption, this can stop others from accessing your data. But there are disadvantages too.
Overnight, Apple has pushed out an update to its XProtect blocking list. This now blocks all versions of […]
Adobe has just released Flash Player 22.0.0.192 update, available from here. This is a very important update, as […]
The good news: Gatekeeper should be more protective. The bad news: old installers may well be unusable. Bah!
How, on the internet, can you prove that you are who you say you are? Could ‘internet IDs’ solve the abuse problem?
It looked alluring: free up disk space, make my Mac faster, and clean out malware. Should you trust it?
Apple has updated overnight the XProtect security settings on Macs running OS X 10.11 El Capitan, to block […]
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