The Year in Mac Security 2008
2008 was a busy year for Mac security and malware, with a number of new threats targeting Macs, from...
A highly sophisticated phishing e-mail campaign is exploiting Google’s own services; Google itself is sending scam e-mails on behalf of fraudsters, and linking to Google-hosted phishing sites. Here’s what to watch out for so you don’t fall victim to this scam.
Apple has just released critically urgent security updates—including macOS Sequoia 15.4.1 and iOS 18.4.1—to address two zero-day vulnerabilities that have been actively exploited in...
You can connect a surprising variety of things to iPhones and iPads via their USB-C (or Lightning) ports, including storage devices, SD card readers,...
23andMe, the popular DNA ancestry and traits service, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Should you tell the company to delete your data and...
Cookie-Bite proves what we already knew: browser extensions can be very dangerous to your security and privacy. Learn how malware extensions can steal session cookies and let hackers sign into your accounts.
2008 was a busy year for Mac security and malware, with a number of new threats targeting Macs, from...
Microsoft recently issued a security advisory regarding what they call a “Vulnerability in WordPad Text Converter” which can allow...
Security & Privacy + Software & Apps
Three browsers have seen new security updates; actually more than three, since the Mozilla Foundation released updates to three...
The Register presents figures from a Cisco report that say that 90% of all e-mails sent are spam. More...
Robert Chapin of Chapin Information Services has analyzed how password managers work in a number of web browsers, and...
Computerworld reports that Sun has patched at least 14 bugs in Java, yet wonders when Apple will get around...
Apple today released Mac OS X 10.5.6, a major update to Mac OS X, which contains a number of...
Security & Privacy + Software & Apps
Google has published an on-line Browser Security Handbook, a comprehensive document written for “web application developers, browser engineers, and...
A nonprofit organization called the Family Online Safety Institute is lobbying for president-elect Barack Obama to name a “national...
Security & Privacy + Software & Apps
The popular media player VLC has been updated to patch a critical security flaw, whereby an integer overflow might...