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New Mac malware can open a backdoor into your system

Bitdefender Labs has announced the detection of new Mac malware, dubbed Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor, which can bypass built-in security in […]

July 5, 2016 Macs, Technology

Firmware passwords: a mixed blessing

Coupled with FileVault’s whole disk encryption, this can stop others from accessing your data. But there are disadvantages too.

July 1, 2016 Macs, Technology

Apple updates XProtect to block Flash Player before 22.0.0.192

Overnight, Apple has pushed out an update to its XProtect blocking list. This now blocks all versions of […]

June 21, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Important Adobe Flash update 22.0.0.192

Adobe has just released Flash Player 22.0.0.192 update, available from here. This is a very important update, as […]

June 16, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

macOS Sierra will break many installers and updaters

The good news: Gatekeeper should be more protective. The bad news: old installers may well be unusable. Bah!

June 16, 2016 Macs, Technology

The difficulty of proving who you are

How, on the internet, can you prove that you are who you say you are? Could ‘internet IDs’ solve the abuse problem?

May 31, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Why you shouldn’t use cleaning or housekeeping apps

It looked alluring: free up disk space, make my Mac faster, and clean out malware. Should you trust it?

May 28, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Apple has updated XProtect to block Flash prior to 21.0.0.242

Apple has updated overnight the XProtect security settings on Macs running OS X 10.11 El Capitan, to block […]

May 19, 2016 Macs, Technology

Significant security fixes in OS X 10.11.5 etc.

Among the significant improvements made to security in OS X 10.11.5 are: PHP is updated to version 5.5.34, […]

May 17, 2016 Macs, Technology

OS X Server 5.1.5 update

Apple has released OS X Server version 5.1.5 update, available from the App Store’s Updates tab. This update […]

May 17, 2016 Macs, Technology

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