BlogFake job interviews are increasingly being used to infect Macs, targeting job seekers at their most vulnerable. These scams look legitimate, unfold slowly, and can silently compromise your accounts and personal data without obvious warning.
January 8, 2026 • 8 min read
Many modern Mac scams don’t look like scams at all — they look like help.
Fake guides and “AI tools” use clean websites and reasonable steps to trick users into handing over access without realizing it.
From sneaking a peek at a partner’s texts to logging into their Facebook account while they’re sleeping, people will go to surprising lengths to see what their significant others are doing online.
The holiday shopping season has arrived again — and with this episode, we’re turning our attention to some security issues specific to this time of year. With Christmas coming up, you might be looking at all kinds of electronic gadgets for your friends and family….
You’re encountering problems with a program on your Mac, and you think it’s a bug, glitch, or potential security issue. What should you do next?
October 25, 2017 • 16 min readThose 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 readIf you haven’t updated your Apple devices in the past month, now would be a good time. On May 16th, Apple unveiled security patches for not just one of its operating systems, but for all of them. Last Monday, Apple unveiled security patches for not…
June 7, 2016 • 3 min read
Update: May 4, 2016 – Apple has released an updated version of Xcode to patch this vulnerability. Users can download Xcode 7.3.1 directly from Apple’s developer site at: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/download/ An outdated Git client in Apple’s Command Line Tools Package is putting OS X developers at…
April 27, 2016 • 3 min read
Available for $9.99 from the Mac App Store, the DataVault Password Manager from Ascendo is a robust password management application that is worth the modest price of admission. The program allows you to store passwords, login details, credit card information, membership information, insurance details, vehicle…
March 18, 2016 • 5 min read
So you’ve just purchased a new Mac computer, be it a laptop or a desktop, and you can’t wait to dive in and start moving all of your files and data over to the new machine. Before you do any of that, though, there are…
December 28, 2015 • 6 min read
For the 2021 version of this guide, covering both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, click here. So you’ve decided to sell your old Mac, give it away to a friend or relative, or donate it to a school or nonprofit. Regardless of what you are…
December 16, 2015 • 5 min read
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 it’s a new app from the App Store, a piece of free software from a third-party source,…
December 7, 2015 • 5 min readIf 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 may want to hold off. According to a recent blog post by cyber security researcher Stefan Esser,…
November 30, 2015 • 5 min readModern 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 online—whether researching for school assignments, playing games, or chatting with friends on social media—and all of this time…
November 25, 2015 • 5 min readLet’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 passwords—let alone a different password for every device, site, and service that you use, as is usually recommended—can…
November 20, 2015 • 6 min readCreating 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 saving them exactly as they are on your computer. Using Mac’s Disk Utility, you can create…
November 13, 2015 • 4 min read