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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

Silent night: El Capitan’s security settings files

Details of the undocumented settings files which Apple may update silently, but control your Mac’s security and other features.

May 4, 2016 Macs, Technology

SIP and rootless: protecting more than just system files

SIP protects your Mac from rogue KEXTs too, and prevents tools from attaching to protected processes.

May 3, 2016 Macs, Technology

A panacea for El Capitan problems: applying the latest Combo updater

Installing a Combo update of OS X is a popular panacea for puzzling problems. But you need to do a bit more to complete the job.

May 2, 2016 Macs, Technology

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