Ivan Krstic Announces Bug Bounty Program

Ivan Krstic Announces Bug Bounty Program

Apple’s head of Security Engineering and Architecture made the announcement (which everyone is by now well aware of) about their soon-to-be-implemented bug bounty program at Black Hat 2016. Krstic expanded upon the parameters of the program in greater detail. Apple is offering cash payouts of…

August 30, 2016 • 3 min read
Five Easy Steps for a Safer Mac

Five Easy Steps for a Safer Mac

Those of you with a small or home business probably use your laptop or personal computer to send invoices, receive transactions, and deal with incoming or outgoing mail related to running your company. If that’s the case, there’s probably plenty sensitive information passing through your…

August 30, 2016 • 5 min read
Apple’s Clash with Banks Over Apple Pay & NFC Chips

Apple’s Clash with Banks Over Apple Pay & NFC Chips

You’ll recall that Apple recently got into a row with four large Australian banks (Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, Commonwealth Bank, NAB, and Westpac) over Apple Pay and their NFC (near field communication) mobile payment hardware. For those who are unaware, Apple Pay allows iPhone and…

August 29, 2016 • 3 min read
Apple to Start Requiring HTTPS for iOS Apps

Apple to Start Requiring HTTPS for iOS Apps

You’re browsing the Internet, and you take a glance up at the address bar. What do you see? In most cases, the first characters in the URL of the website you are looking at will be “HTTPS.” HTTPS, or HTTP Secure, is the most secure…

August 27, 2016 • 3 min read
Support for MacScan 2 Has Ended

Support for MacScan 2 Has Ended

Effective August 1, 2016, support for MacScan 2 software has officially ended.  This means that SecureMac is no longer providing technical support or malware definition, tracking cookie blacklist, or program updates for MacScan 2.  We have been strongly encouraging existing users of MacScan 2 to…

August 1, 2016 • 2 min read
Little Snitch Linked with Privilege Escalation on Mac OS X El Capitan

Little Snitch Linked with Privilege Escalation on Mac OS X El Capitan

The Little Snitch app is an application firewall that is great for monitoring and controlling how the apps on your Mac can connect to and use the internet. However, according to a recent report from Threatpost, the application might be vulnerable itself. Discovered by researcher…

August 2, 2016 • 2 min read
Edward Snowden Designs an iPhone Case to Detect Government Spying

Edward Snowden Designs an iPhone Case to Detect Government Spying

Three years ago, Edward Snowden turned the United States upside down by leaking information about NSA spying programs to the press. The leaks gave American citizens an unprecedented view of the tactics that the government employs to track and monitor their private lives. In the…

August 3, 2016 • 3 min read
Security Flaws in WhatsApp & iMessage

Security Flaws in WhatsApp & iMessage

WhatsApp, the popular cross-platform messaging program, may have a security flaw. That security flaw might also be present in Apple’s iMessage feature. This is according to security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski, via a post on his blog Zdziarski’s Blog of Things on July 28th. First, a…

August 15, 2016 • 2 min read
iOS 9.3.4 Bug Fix

iOS 9.3.4 Bug Fix

iOS 9 has received yet another update – this one designed to tackle recently discovered security flaws – CNET reports. This marks the fourth update to iOS 9.3 (which was released in March). It is also speculated to be the last update to iOS 9.3,…

August 17, 2016 • 3 min read
Apple Bounty Program

Apple Bounty Program

Taking a page from the playbook of a number of other high-profile companies, Apple intends to implement a bounty program to enlist the aid of third parties in tracking down and eliminating bugs in their software. Recently, The Verge reported that Apple would, at last,…

August 18, 2016 • 3 min read
Apple Releases Important iOS Update to guard against Malware

Apple Releases Important iOS Update to guard against Malware

iPhone and iPad users should update to the latest version of iOS as soon as possible, following the latest security update from Apple. The new patch—iOS 9.3.5—arrived on Thursday, August 25th and was dubbed by Apple as an “important security update.” It addresses dangerous malware…

August 26, 2016 • 3 min read
Apple to Start Requiring HTTPS for iOS Apps

Apple to Start Requiring HTTPS for iOS Apps

You’re browsing the Internet, and you take a glance up at the address bar. What do you see? In most cases, the first characters in the URL of the website you are looking at will be “HTTPS.” HTTPS, or HTTP Secure, is the most secure…

August 27, 2016 • 3 min read
Apple’s Clash with Banks Over Apple Pay & NFC Chips

Apple’s Clash with Banks Over Apple Pay & NFC Chips

You’ll recall that Apple recently got into a row with four large Australian banks (Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, Commonwealth Bank, NAB, and Westpac) over Apple Pay and their NFC (near field communication) mobile payment hardware. For those who are unaware, Apple Pay allows iPhone and…

August 29, 2016 • 3 min read
Five Easy Steps for a Safer Mac

Five Easy Steps for a Safer Mac

Those of you with a small or home business probably use your laptop or personal computer to send invoices, receive transactions, and deal with incoming or outgoing mail related to running your company. If that’s the case, there’s probably plenty sensitive information passing through your…

August 30, 2016 • 5 min read
Ivan Krstic Announces Bug Bounty Program

Ivan Krstic Announces Bug Bounty Program

Apple’s head of Security Engineering and Architecture made the announcement (which everyone is by now well aware of) about their soon-to-be-implemented bug bounty program at Black Hat 2016. Krstic expanded upon the parameters of the program in greater detail. Apple is offering cash payouts of…

August 30, 2016 • 3 min read