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The Checklist Summer Security Special 2020

In the movies, bad guys are often taken down by a tech vulnerability. This week, we revisit our look at how best practices could make bad guys better at being...

Is TikTok reading your clipboard?

TikTok has been caught snooping on iOS users’ clipboard data. The video-sharing app’s troubling behavior was discovered thanks to a new privacy feature in...

Checklist 189: WWDC20 and the Mac

On this week’s Checklist, we cover the biggest Mac news to come out of Apple’s 2020 Worldwide Developer Conference, includingA new macOS and SafariA...

Highlights from the 2020 Worldwide Developers Conference

Apple’s 2020 Worldwide Developers Conference got underway on Monday with a livestreamed keynote address. The company announced major updates to its...

10 tips for getting back on the road again

Covid-19 lockdowns are starting to lift, and people are already beginning to travel for work and family reasons. We’ve shared cybersecurity best practices...

Best of the Checklist: June 18th, 2020

The Checklist will return next week with coverage of WWDC 2020. In the meantime, we’ll catch you up on the latest cybersecurity news — and share several...

Security for new high school grads

It’s high school graduation time again! COVID-19 has brought some big changes this year, with drive-thru graduations and Zoom commencement speeches taking...

Karen Gullo on government monitoring

Karen Gullo on government monitoring

Karen Gullo is an analyst and senior media relations specialist for Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). She is an award-winning journalist who has written...

Episode: Best of the Checklist

Best of the Checklist

The Checklist is taking a short break as we gear up for WWDC 2020 — but we’ll be back with all new episodes very soon. To tide you over while you wait,...

What is a DNS leak?

VPNs offer you security and privacy, ensuring that no one (not even your ISP) can see what you’re doing online. But there is a security flaw known as a...

Checklist 188: Don’t Let Your iPhone Give You Away

This week’s Checklist is all about staying safe in an unsafe world:Mitigating mobile privacy threats in publicPreventing unauthorized access to your...

Checklist 187: Talking Encryption with Patrick Wardle

This week, we sit down with a special guest to discuss the ins and outs of encryption — touching on everything from iPhone passcodes and brute-force attacks...

New unc0ver jailbreak works on all modern iOS devices

Just as Apple released iOS 13.5 to the world, hackers at unc0ver announced that they had developed a jailbreak that would work on devices running iOS 11 all...

Checklist 186: Catching Up on Contact Tracing

This week, we’ll bring you up to speed on Big Tech’s efforts to fight Covid-19. Building contact tracing apps (without help from Silicon...

iOS 13.5 introduces health and safety features

Apple has just released iOS 13.5, and the update brings several significant changes. In what follows, we’ll touch on the highlights — and tell you what...

The Senate votes for warrantless surveillance. Here’s what you can...

The U.S. Senate recently voted to allow law enforcement and intelligence agencies to access people’s web and search history without a warrant.In this...

Getting back to security basics

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we live, work, and study — and has created new digital security and privacy issues as well. But as they...

Bridgefy: The Hong Kong protest messenger app

The Hong Kong protests have captured the world’s attention for several months now. While we’ll leave the political commentary to others, one noteworthy...

Is XProtect enough to keep you safe?

Mac malware threats are now increasing more rapidly than their Windows counterparts. With threats to macOS growing more prevalent and sophisticated, many...

The difference between a VPN and a proxy

You’ve heard of VPNs, and you may have come across the term “proxy” or “proxy server” before. If you’re like most people, you may be wondering if...

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