Over the past few years, there has been an undeniable explosion in the popularity of using “the cloud” for services as diverse as music streaming, web hosting, and file storage. One of the earliest, biggest, and most continually influential players in cloud services is Dropbox….
September 21, 2016 • 2 min readWith millions of active users on Mac platforms alone and hundreds of millions more users worldwide, Opera remains a favorite web browser even two decades after its first release. On its website download page, Opera even bills itself as “the best browser for Mac.” Apple…
September 7, 2016 • 3 min readThe Little Snitch app is an application firewall that is great for monitoring and controlling how the apps on your Mac can connect to and use the internet. However, according to a recent report from Threatpost, the application might be vulnerable itself. Discovered by researcher…
August 2, 2016 • 2 min readEffective August 1, 2016, support for MacScan 2 software has officially ended. This means that SecureMac is no longer providing technical support or malware definition, tracking cookie blacklist, or program updates for MacScan 2. We have been strongly encouraging existing users of MacScan 2 to…
August 1, 2016 • 2 min readApple recently released the latest round of security updates for all of its operating systems and key software programs. The updates all hit the web on July 18th and are officially available for download as we speak. Here’s a brief rundown of each update, what…
July 21, 2016 • 3 min read
Have you tried to use Adobe Flash Player on your Mac recently, only to get a message about your Flash Player plug-in being blocked or out-of-date? As of April 28th, Apple has begun blocking older versions of the Flash plug-in. You will need to update…
May 4, 2016 • 2 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Users can download Xcode 7.3.1 directly from Apple’s developer site at: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/download/ An outdated Git client in Apple’s Command Line Tools Package is putting OS X developers at…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
Could you be rendering your Mac vulnerable to cyberattacks, just by running several popular applications? That’s the contention being made by security researchers, according to a recent report from Ars Technica. The report highlights popular BitTorrent downloading program uTorrent and screen-cropping video software Camtasia among…
March 16, 2016 • 3 min read
Last year, the spyware developer Hacking Team seemed to go down in flames after a massive internal leak exposed the company’s dirty secrets for the world to see. Prior to that occurrence, the Milan-based firm had been in operation since 2003, selling products to governments,…
March 14, 2016 • 3 min readCan you count on Gatekeeper, Apple’s proprietary malware blocking tool, to keep your computer safe? The jury is still out on that question, but one researcher has at least done his part to make Gatekeeper a bit more efficient. Last year, Patrick Wardle of the…
March 8, 2016 • 3 min read
BitTorrent Client Exposes Users to First Known Piece of OS X Ransomware Unlucky BitTorrent users who installed the latest version of Transmission over the weekend unwittingly exposed themselves to the first known piece of ransomware seen in the wild for OS X. According to a…
March 7, 2016 • 4 min read