U.S. exposes Chinese malware Taidoor – Weekly privacy news, August 7, 2020
This week in privacy news: the FBI publicly accused China of creating Taidoor malware, T-Mobile shadow-banned customers for texting...

Every time you type a password, send a message, or enter credit card details online, that information briefly exists in its most exposed form: raw keystrokes. While most security tools focus on protecting data in transit or at rest, some threats are designed to capture it before those protections ever apply. Keyloggers do exactly that....

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...

It’s an age-old question: Should you shut down and restart your computer daily, or leave it running 24/7? Let’s explore the considerations for users...

Is your Mac running slow? Here's how to diagnose and fix performance issues and get your Mac to run faster.
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Executive Summary Intego Antivirus Labs is tracking an evolution of the “ClickFix” social engineering campaign targeting macOS users. Dubbed Matryoshka due to its nested obfuscation layers, this variant uses a fake installation/fix flow to trick victims into executing a...
This week in privacy news: the FBI publicly accused China of creating Taidoor malware, T-Mobile shadow-banned customers for texting...
There are a number of ways you can send files securely to anyone over the internet.
We talk about an update on the Great Twitter Hack of 2020, discuss a ransomware attack on Garmin that...
This week in privacy news: new details have emerged about the Twitter hack, Garmin outages were caused by a...
We follow up on the great Twitter hack of 2020, we discuss how a Cloudflare outage brought down many...
On a recent weekend, I watched two movies, each of which used an element of computer security as a...
Apple issues another round of updates, hackers target organizations involved in coronavirus vaccine development, and there was a big...
This week Apple released updates to all of its operating systems and Safari browser. Here’s a brief rundown of...
Smart locks offer interesting features, but like any connected device, they are not without risk.
There are lots of options for displaying the date and time in the menu bar of your Mac.