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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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Episode: SecureMac Celebrates Two Years of The Checklist Podcast

SecureMac Celebrates Two Years of The Checklist Podcast

December 11, 2018

Las Vegas, Nevada — With more than 118 episodes in the history books, SecureMac is proud to mark the passing of two years since the initial launch of The...

SecureMac’s PrivacyScan 1.9.5 Brings Powerful Privacy Protections to Mojave

SecureMac’s PrivacyScan 1.9.5 Brings Powerful Privacy Protections...

December 4, 2018

Las Vegas, Nevada – How many companies are tracking where you go online right now? Answering that question isn’t easy, but one thing is sure: it’s not a...

Checklist 116: It’s In The Mail

November 29, 2018

Welcome in to our post-Thanksgiving episode of The Checklist, brought to you by SecureMac. Holiday weeks are typically where news goes to die — everyone...

Checklist 115: A Cornucopia of Security Stuffing

November 22, 2018

We're stuffed on security news this week, with a cornucopia of subjects to sort through in our discussion. We'll be chatting about a major online retailer...

Apple Releases, Updates macOS Mojave and iOS 12, But Bricks Some Users’ Watches

Apple Releases, Updates macOS Mojave and iOS 12, But Bricks Some...

November 9, 2018

In early September, Apple achieved two milestone releases: the arrival of iOS 12 for mobile devices and macOS Mojave for the desktop environment. Along with a...

Checklist 114: What’s the Internet for Again?

November 8, 2018

Welcome in to another episode of The Checklist, brought to you by SecureMac. We're diving right into the headlines again today, looking first at a new...

Passcode Bypass Exploit for iOS 12.1 Appears Just After Release

Passcode Bypass Exploit for iOS 12.1 Appears Just After Release

November 7, 2018

Just a few hours after Apple released iOS 12.1 - which contained a few new features and a large slate of bug fixes - a security researcher identified a new...

Checklist 113: Security Breaks and Fixes in iOS

November 1, 2018

A slightly surprising slip-up on Apple's part, a helpful security how-to, and an update on a persistent foe — that's what we’re diving into this week as we...

Checklist 112: Security as an Obstacle in Mojave

October 25, 2018

Last week, we brought you a discussion about some of the latest security and privacy features in Apple’s latest major release, macOS Mojave. Not everything...

Checklist 111: macOS Mojave

October 18, 2018

Say goodbye to High Sierra, and hello to Mojave! On September 24, Apple released the latest version of its core operating system, macOS, bringing with it not...

Checklist 110: Security and Privacy in iOS 12

October 11, 2018

It’s finally here! On September 17, Apple introduced iOS 12, the latest version of the operating system that makes our iPhones and iPads tick. Packed with a...

The release of iOS 12 Brings Both Security Improvements and Bug Fixes

The release of iOS 12 Brings Both Security Improvements and Bug Fixes

October 4, 2018

The latest major version of Apple's flagship mobile operating has been released, along with a group of updates shared among iOS and many other products,...

Checklist 109: The Weakness is Wetware

Social engineering strikes again, the intersection of the digital world and constitutional law, and more — that's the gist of the tour we're taking around...

Checklist 108: Hotel Wi-Fi How-To

September 27, 2018

This week on The Checklist, we're going on vacation! No, wait — it's a business trip. Maybe... the house is being fumigated! Whatever the reason is, we have...

Checklist 107: Newegg, Old Issues

September 20, 2018

This week, we're looking at a slew of security issues, from a good old-fashioned data breach, to Apple's latest way to make sure that the person using your...

Breach of Spyware Company mSpy Exposes iCloud Account Information for...

September 19, 2018

Apple users should consider changing their iCloud passwords after a recent breach reportedly exposed the account information of millions of people. The breach...

Checklist 106: Breaking Down Breakdowns in the Mac App Store

September 13, 2018

This week, we're taking a bit of a different approach to our show. Instead of presenting you with a list of topics and running down several separate stories,...

Checklist 105: Products and Byproducts

September 6, 2018

In this week's discussion, we're looking at some stories that strike a similar tone to several of our recent episodes. With Google figuring out how to use your...

Checklist 104: Guess Again! And Again! And Again!

August 30, 2018

It might seem like we have a thousand new security issues to talk about each week — but if you've been listening for a while, you know that's pretty much par...

Hacking Fax Machines? It Can Happen, and Mac Users Could Be

The average person, when they think about fax machines, probably puts them into the same class of technology as dial-up Internet — old, obsolete, and...

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