Once upon a time I would be lectured by Mac users on how Macs did not get malware or computer viruses. This was probably because the user base was not big enough to attract threat actors. Today however things are very different. Macs are as vulnerable as any other computer …
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency security advisories
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is a trusted source of information on security updates and exploited vulnerabilities. My team use it as one of their go to resources. The latest updates include the other vendors that release updates around the same time as Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. …
Critical Apple Patches available
Apple has issued Out-of-Band patches for a number of its products to address two zero-day vulnerabilities that are currently being exploited. About the security content of iOS 16.6.1 and iPadOS 16.6.1 – Apple Patches are available for, iPhone 8 and later, iPads and iPad Pros, Macs running Ventura and Apple …
Why knowing what is installed on your network is important…
Here is a cautionary tale of redundant software. Before Macs got dark mode, many companies produced dark mode applets and many Mac users who could not live without dark mode, downloaded them and used them. Then Apple introduced dark mode and these applets became redundant. Many users uninstalled the applets …
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Apple and End-to-End Encryption
Apple has joined the debate about the UK government’s proposed bill to weaken every UK citizen’s privacy online, by threatening to pull affected Apple services from the UK market. As Apple (and several articles I have posted) state, laws already exist for the authorities to breach the privacy of citizens …
