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MacKeeper Customer Data Exposed

December 14, 2015

Some 13 million customers of MacKeeper, an anti-virus program for OS X, had their personal data exposed recently due to a major security oversight in the...

Safely Downloading from the Internet

December 7, 2015

If you are using a Mac (or any computer, for that matter), it's a concrete fact that you are eventually going to download something from the Internet. Whether...

Protecting Your Privacy in an Increasingly Connected World

December 3, 2015

These days, everything and everyone is connected. At work, we communicate as much via email as we do face-to-face. At home, our primary means of interacting...

How Thinking Machines Can Change Our Future

December 2, 2015

With many of the "predictions" laid forth in futuristic films like Back to the Future and Minority Report coming true, it’s easy to feel like we are at a...

Newly Discovered OS X Security Flaw Could Give Hackers an Easy Way to Take Control of Your System

Newly Discovered OS X Security Flaw Could Give Hackers an Easy Way to...

November 30, 2015

If you by chance haven't updated to Mac OS X 10.10 just yet (e.g., the Yosemite operating system update that first became available in October 2014), then you...

Apple vs. Android: Who Wins in the Security Battle?

November 29, 2015

In a recent opinion piece for The Guardian, writer and technology professor John Naughton wrote about the ongoing war between Apple and Android for total...

Why Protecting Your Child’s Identity Online Is Important

November 27, 2015

Parents raising kids today are at a disadvantage. Thanks to the internet and the advent of countless other digital and networking technologies, modern parents...

Apple Boots Apps for Violating Privacy Policies

Apple Boots Apps for Violating Privacy Policies

November 25, 2015

The Mac App Store recently booted 256 apps for violating store-wide privacy policies. According to a report from Tech Republic, Apple pulled the apps for their...

Monitoring Your Children Online

Monitoring Your Children Online

Modern parents face at least one challenge that their parents probably never had to deal with: the Internet. Kids these days spend a lot of their time...

Welcome to the new face of security

November 24, 2015

SecureMac News, Reviews & Advisories We’ve migrated our news and advisories into a dedicated area on SecureMac. Now you can quickly access the latest...

Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit for “Wi-Fi Assist” Feature

Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit for “Wi-Fi Assist”...

November 22, 2015

Did Apple make a grievous error with the design of its most recent mobile device operating system, iOS 9? After launching iOS 9 in September, alongside the...

How to Select a Strong Password (and Password Manager App)

How to Select a Strong Password (and Password Manager App)

November 20, 2015

Let's just call a spade a spade: passwords are among the most irritating things about living in the digital age. Trying to remember even one or two...

Apple Updates to Patch Security Flaws for iOS and OS X

Apple Updates to Patch Security Flaws for iOS and OS X

November 17, 2015

Apple's latest mobile and desktop operating systems, iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan, launched in the second half of September. As of October 22nd, Apple has...

Creating Password Protected Disk Images on Mac

Creating Password Protected Disk Images on Mac

November 13, 2015

Creating a disk image is a method often used for system backup, and can essentially clone your hard drive by copying the contents and structure of the disk and...

8 Tips to Keep your Mac Happy, Healthy, and Safe

8 Tips to Keep your Mac Happy, Healthy, and Safe

November 6, 2015

Macs are sleek and slick computers that can run well for years after you take them out of the box. Like all other computers, though, your Mac is not immune to...

4 Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Apple’s iCloud Keychain Feature

4 Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Apple’s iCloud...

October 27, 2015

Note: This page refers to older versions of Keychain. We have an updated (2021) article about iCloud Keychain features. Even if you don't use it, you...

How to configure Mac OS X Firewall

How to configure Mac OS X Firewall

August 15, 2015

Unlike the firewall settings in Windows, the built-in firewall for Mac OS X is not enabled by default. If you've recently purchased a new Mac computer, then...

Recovering a Lost or Stolen iPhone

August 13, 2015

It goes without saying that the sleek, lightweight, and attractive design of the iPhones makes it an ideal smartphone choice for many. Unfortunately, those...

Newly Discovered OS X Security Flaw Could Give Hackers an Easy Way to Take Control of Your System

Newly Discovered OS X Security Flaw Could Give Hackers an Easy Way to...

August 12, 2015

If you by chance haven't updated to Mac OS X 10.10 just yet (e.g., the Yosemite operating system update that first became available last October), then you may...

MacKeeper URL handler remote code execution vulnerability and proof-of-concept (Zero-Day)

MacKeeper URL handler remote code execution vulnerability and...

Security Advisory update issued: 05/08/2015 MacKeeper has posted an advisory on their blog detailing the security issue and the steps they have taken in...

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