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SecureMac presents The Checklist. Each week, Nicholas Raba, Nicholas Ptacek, and Ken Ray hit security topics for your Mac and iOS devices. From getting an old iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, and other Apple gear ready to sell to the first steps to take to secure new hardware, each show contains a set of easy to follow steps meant to keep you safe from identity thieves, hackers, malware, and other digital downfalls. Check in each Thursday for a new Checklist!

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Checklist 134: Many Things, Revisited!

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...

Checklist 133: Hello, Turkmenistan!

This week, we’ve got many interesting stories on our hands, ranging from yet another example of someone abusing Apple’s enterprise developer program, to...

Episode: Checklist 132: Soup, Salad, and a Security Breach

Checklist 132: Soup, Salad, and a Security Breach

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...

iOS 12.2 Patches Majors Security Flaws; Users Should Update Immediately

iOS 12.2 Patches Majors Security Flaws; Users Should Update...

It 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...

Apple Releases Security Updates for macOS

Apple Releases Security Updates for macOS

Apple recently released security updates across many of its products, including macOS and iOS. The macOS updates apply to macOS Mojave (Mojave Version...

Apple Pushes Latest Round of Updates for a Variety of Products

Apple Pushes Latest Round of Updates for a Variety of Products

It'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...

Checklist 131: The Good, the Bad, and the Buggly

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...

Checklist 130: A Sick Phone, Your Face, and MySpace

Here on The Checklist, we spend a not-insignificant amount of time discussing the many ways that malware can attack your Mac, but what about your iPhone?...

iPhone Prototypes Find Their Way to Hackers and Researchers Alike

iPhone Prototypes Find Their Way to Hackers and Researchers Alike

Have 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...

Checklist 129: The Internet of Things and Other Things

Congress wakes up for a moment to realize something funny is going on with the Internet of Things, some useful clarifications about how apps work, and a...

Google Shares Details about a New macOS Vulnerability

Google Shares Details about a New macOS Vulnerability

On Friday, March 1, 2019, Google’s Project Zero announced that it had discovered a “high severity” vulnerability in Apple’s macOS operating system....

Checklist 128: The Matrix, the Bounty, and the Electronic Frontier

A "thunderclap" of a hardware flaw sends reverberations throughout the Mac community, Apple gets its hands on the details of a serious flaw, and the EFF turns...

Checklist 127: Once More, with Facebook!

February 28, 2019

Once more, with Facebook! This week, we're looking at — you guessed it — yet another case of a story where Facebook has been hoovering up data left and...

Checklist 126: Little Nests Have Big Ears

February 21, 2019

Are there devices in your home that can listen to your surroundings? If you use a digital assistant, that's to be expected — but what if you're using a home...

Apple Releases a Fix for Group FaceTime Bug — Update Now

Apple Releases a Fix for Group FaceTime Bug — Update Now

February 15, 2019

After 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...

New Linux Malware Appears, Infects Some Macs Along the Way

New Linux Malware Appears, Infects Some Macs Along the Way

February 14, 2019

While the average user might think their operating system options only go so far as "PC or Mac", the truth is that there are many more systems running behind...

Checklist 125: Pirates on the Enterprise

Touring around the headlines this week, we've got an exciting and eclectic mix of stories to hit. From apps looking back at you to a story from the past few...

Checklist 124: Returning to the Nest

February 7, 2019

This week, a return to form — at least in terms of format. We've got follow-ups on stories from previous weeks for you, but we're also hitting some big...

Newly-Discovered Bug in Group FaceTime Inadvertently Allows...

February 6, 2019

When Apple debuted iOS 12.1 late last year, one of the flagship additions to the system was Group FaceTime. This long-requested feature allows multiple users...

Latest Round of Security Updates Arrives for Apple Devices

Latest Round of Security Updates Arrives for Apple Devices

January 31, 2019

It's here: the first array of security updates in the new year for everything from macOS to iOS. These updates don't roll out any brand new bells and whistles...

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