Kirk McElhearn, Author at The Mac Security Blog

A four-year old child, using his father's phone, ordered $1,139 worth of gelato. We discuss the risks of lending...

iPhones and iPads don't have user accounts, so if you lend a child your device, they could make purchases,...

The Log4j vulnerability is making the news, and we discuss what it is and who should worry. We look...

Apple's new App Privacy Report, in iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.2, gives you lots of information about how apps...

One of the useful new features in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey is Live Text. This feature...

Amazon's AWS outage causes havoc with the internet; a simple mistake can lock you out of your Google account...

A new email scam is making the rounds, purporting to be from hackers in the NSO Group, known for...

The UK is mulling a bill to prohibit default passwords; the admin/admin that is often set by default on...

Apple has filed a lawsuit against NSO Group, the creator of Pegasus spyware, that has targeted politicians, journalists, and...

We had to check our calendars when Apple announced a new self-service repair program for iPhones. We look at...