The newest array of updates from Apple has arrived, with an array of updates for a variety of products addressing numerous security concerns, some of them serious. While these updates, particularly iOS 12.3, also add several new and exciting features that are sure to please…
May 20, 2019 • 2 min read
A tricky class of vulnerability rises from the grave to trouble us again, one of the world’s most popular communications apps turns out to have a glaring flaw in its code that requires an immediate update to fix, and it’s time again to update your…
May 16, 2019 • 9 min read
On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac: Security breach on pump four, A U.S. city under cyber siege, and Keeping 12-year-olds off of dating apps.
May 10, 2019 • 11 min read
On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac: Free viewing, plus bonus malware, 80 million households exposed, Is Facebook ACTUALLY working on user privacy?
May 2, 2019 • 10 min read
On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac, we talk over the digital facts of life with mom and dad. Our topics include: Ellen Degeneres is NOT giving things away on Facebook, How to share your wifi network (and why you may not want to) & Password safety: Because we keep being unsafe with our passwords
April 25, 2019 • 11 min read
On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac: Worried about your internet of things things? Princeton has a tool for that!, Worried about hotels and data security? You should be!, Apple’s new steps against scammy subscriptions,and Facebook: amiright…?
April 19, 2019 • 10 min read
On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac: More enterprise certificate abuse, Threats to put CEOs in the poker and A layer of certification for Mac apps.
April 11, 2019 • 11 min read
Do you eat at restaurants? Do you use a phone? Do you even, dare we ask… go shopping? Then boy, do we have an episode for you this week! These might sound like mundane questions, but with this week’s stories, we’ll see that sometimes that’s…
April 4, 2019 • 12 min readIt seems like only yesterday when Apple was taking Group FaceTime down to give itself time to fix a severe bug discovered by a teenager. In the latest round of updates, iOS received fixes for several bugs as bad or worse than the FaceTime issue…
April 3, 2019 • 3 min readApple recently released security updates across many of its products.
April 2, 2019 • 2 min readIt’s here: the latest round of updates for Apple products has arrived, and it’s a doozy. This series of updates is jam-packed with bug fixes and security updates that iPhone, iPad, and Mac users should all download right away to begin taking advantage of their…
April 1, 2019 • 2 min read
On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac we’ll be discussing: The Good: Senators try to protect children’s data, The Bad: FEMA exposes the data of over 2-million disaster victims, and The Buggly: Apple fixes a boatload of security issues.
March 28, 2019 • 11 min read
On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac we talk about: Viruses or Malware, Can iPhone get either?, Congress considers facial recognition legislation and MySpace teaches us all about backups.
March 21, 2019 • 10 min readHave you ever wondered about how hackers or security researchers can figure out where the hidden flaws in iOS lay? For years, that’s been a big question, from concerns about how companies such as Cellebrite and GrayKey found their way into iOS to how researchers…
March 18, 2019 • 3 min read
On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac: Congress nibbles at the Internet of Things, Out of sight is not off the grid and A show worthy of a security conference.
March 14, 2019 • 13 min readOn Friday, March 1, 2019, Google’s Project Zero announced that it had discovered a “high severity” vulnerability in Apple’s macOS operating system. The Project Zero team constantly works to find vulnerabilities in software and code from other companies and developers. When Project Zero does identify…
March 8, 2019 • 3 min read
On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac: Hear ye, the Thunderclap, Google’s Project Zero hits Apple & The EFF wants encryption in the cloud.
March 7, 2019 • 10 min read
On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac: Popular Apps Send Your Info to Facebook, The State of Play for Consumer Privacy, Pulling the Plug on Onavo Protect, Which Nests are Miked-Up, The Senate Wants to See Google’s CEO
February 28, 2019 • 10 min read
On this week’s show we talk about: Little Nests have big ears, Google crosses one of its own privacy lines, and when sharing can be a bad thing…
February 21, 2019 • 9 min readAfter a couple of weeks of uncertainty following the announcement of a severe privacy flaw in one of Apple’s flagship features for iOS 12, a patch nearly entirely dedicated to fixing the problem is available for download. Relevant updates are included in iOS 12.1.4, a…
February 15, 2019 • 2 min read