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A step-by-step guide to preparing a Mac for young children.
FruitFly, a piece of Mac malware that infected thousands of machines over the course of more than 13 years, was being distributed via poorly protected external services. read more
Translation: No jail time for Oz Apple file teen thief The Australian teen who last month admitted hacking into Apple's internal network and stealing data from the Cupertino giant has been spared jail.…
Malicious apps can trivially thwart Mojave 10.14's new privacy protections.
Patched flaw hard to exploit, but serious once you get there, warn infoseccers Details of a locally exploitable but kernel-level flaw in Webroot's SecureAnywhere macOS security software were...
A URL spoofing bug in Safari is being reported with the word BEWARE! - we explain how bad it really is, and what to do about it.
Trend Micro on Monday confirmed that some of its applications for Mac collect browser history and send it to the security firm’s servers. read more
Private data caught being siphoned off to outside server A bunch of Trend Micro macOS anti-malware tools have vanished from Apple's App Store – after they were spotted harvesting and siphoning off...
Hours after researchers publicly disclosed an app that was caught stealing and uploading browser history data, Apple removed it from the Mac App Store.
Mac applications distributed via Apple’s official App Store marketplace are collecting and exfiltrating sensitive user data, security researchers have discovered. read more