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The Steam Christmas breach: more details and a call to action

It turns out that Steam’s leak of personal data was very large, did contain sensitive personal information, and was the result of a denial of service attack. Has it been reported, though?

December 31, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Adobe Flash Player updated for the last time (in 2015 at least)

Adobe has issued what must be the last update to Flash Player – for this year, at least. […]

December 29, 2015 Macs, Technology

Unexpected Christmas presents: how Steam served the wrong user data

A single point of failure which discarded all privacy protection is hardly an example of good design.

December 27, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Which password? When to enter your user password, and when to use your Apple ID

Have you ever entered the password for your Mac instead of that for your Apple ID? This should help make it clearer which you need to use.

December 26, 2015 Macs, Technology

Steam leaked, servers shut down

A major problem with Valve’s Steam games servers has apparently resulted in those servers being shut down today, […]

December 25, 2015 Macs, Technology

Who will bear the brunt of backdoors in encryption?

Backdoors will be exploited, and can only result in unintentional consequences. They would put the economy and society at risk.

December 21, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

MacKeeper: potential security breach

If you have ever registered a copy of MacKeeper, you might like to think carefully about how you […]

December 14, 2015 Macs, Technology

Internet-enabled toys, kids, and their safety

As a parent, threats to children now seem out of your control. Should you let them have that Internet-enabled Barbie doll, or remain a Luddite?

December 11, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.235

Adobe Flash Player has been updated by a whole major version number to 20.0.0.235, which is now available […]

December 9, 2015 Macs, Technology

How modern encryption works: iOS encryption, and AES

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Accessible explanations of how AES encryption is performed, and how encryption works in iPhones and iPads.

November 24, 2015 Macs, Technology

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