Kirk McElhearn, Author at The Mac Security Blog

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...

So you’ve got a new iPhone or iPad, or perhaps even an iPod touch; maybe it’s your first, or...

We cover some security news, such as a password breach at Zynga, a user database breach at Waze, and...