Checklist 73: Meltdown, Spectre and You!

Checklist 73: Meltdown, Spectre and You!

On today’s edition of The Checklist, we’re tackling the complex topics of Spectre and Meltdown, arguably two of the biggest and most far-reaching security vulnerabilities we’ve ever seen. Among those impacted are everyone from iOS and macOS users to Windows machines and just about anything powered by an Intel processor around the world!

January 25, 2018 • 16 min read
Checklist 72: 2017 Security Review Part Two

Checklist 72: 2017 Security Review Part Two

Last week, we brought you Part One of our 2017 Security Year in Review. This week, we’ll wrap that up with Part Two! If you didn’t get a chance to check out Part One yet, the episode and its accompanying show notes are available right…

January 18, 2018 • 15 min read
Checklist 71: 2017 Security Review Part One

Checklist 71: 2017 Security Review Part One

For this, Episode 71 of The Checklist, we sat down during the first week of January 2018 to put a magnifying glass over the year that just ended. For part one of our discussion, we’re taking an in-depth look at the biggest security issues that affected macOS and iOS in 2017. With so many things going on — and there were quite a lot — it can be tough to remember all the details. To start our recap, we’ll go all the way back to this time one year ago: the beginning of January.

January 11, 2018 • 13 min read
Apple Confirms Fixes for Major CPU Vulnerability, More on the Way

Apple Confirms Fixes for Major CPU Vulnerability, More on the Way

Apple has confirmed that a pair of critical security vulnerabilities uncovered by security researchers late in 2017, and now filtering out into media reports, does affect “all Mac systems and iOS devices.” These bugs, dubbed Meltdown and Spectre, affect the clear majority of computers and…

January 8, 2018 • 1 min read
Checklist 70: Apple’s No Good Very Bad Security Quarter

Checklist 70: Apple’s No Good Very Bad Security Quarter

For more than a year, we’ve been taking a little time every week here at The Checklist to bring you a podcast focused on and around the security of the Mac, iOS devices, and the Apple platform in general. We all know that was silly,…

January 4, 2018 • 13 min read
Apple Confirms Fixes for Major CPU Vulnerability, More on the Way

Apple Confirms Fixes for Major CPU Vulnerability, More on the Way

Apple has confirmed that a pair of critical security vulnerabilities uncovered by security researchers late in 2017, and now filtering out into media reports, does affect “all Mac systems and iOS devices.” These bugs, dubbed Meltdown and Spectre, affect the clear majority of computers and…

January 8, 2018 • 1 min read
Checklist 71: 2017 Security Review Part One

Checklist 71: 2017 Security Review Part One

For this, Episode 71 of The Checklist, we sat down during the first week of January 2018 to put a magnifying glass over the year that just ended. For part one of our discussion, we’re taking an in-depth look at the biggest security issues that affected macOS and iOS in 2017. With so many things going on — and there were quite a lot — it can be tough to remember all the details. To start our recap, we’ll go all the way back to this time one year ago: the beginning of January.

January 11, 2018 • 13 min read
Checklist 72: 2017 Security Review Part Two

Checklist 72: 2017 Security Review Part Two

Last week, we brought you Part One of our 2017 Security Year in Review. This week, we’ll wrap that up with Part Two! If you didn’t get a chance to check out Part One yet, the episode and its accompanying show notes are available right…

January 18, 2018 • 15 min read
Checklist 73: Meltdown, Spectre and You!

Checklist 73: Meltdown, Spectre and You!

On today’s edition of The Checklist, we’re tackling the complex topics of Spectre and Meltdown, arguably two of the biggest and most far-reaching security vulnerabilities we’ve ever seen. Among those impacted are everyone from iOS and macOS users to Windows machines and just about anything powered by an Intel processor around the world!

January 25, 2018 • 16 min read