Kirk McElhearn, Author at The Mac Security Blog

Your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch comes with 36 default apps, including Mail, Safari, and Messages. You may...

A child spends a fortune on in-app purchases, the CIA has been running a fake company providing encryption services,...

Fake news, scams, and phishing are the plague of our times. In this guide, we discuss fact-checkers and tips...

One of the most pernicious activities that Facebook does is to track you when you’re not on their website,...

We explain how to delete “off-Facebook activity,” discuss a Google Photos data leak, a Twitter phone number issue, and...

Apple updates everything, the Ring doorbell has trackers in its app, and the Shlayer malware has infected lots of...

This week on the Intego Mac Podcast, episode 119… The iPhone belonging to the world’s richest man, Amazon founder and...

Photos you shoot with your iPhone, and with some cameras, store location data. Sharing these photos on social media...

We look back at the eventful year 2019 in Apple security. In the news, Apple is switching to randomized...

Scams aren’t new; they’ve been around for centuries, even millennia. They are used to bilk unsuspecting people, or to...