9 articles tagged malware.
Every time you launch an app for the first time, macOS will use that application’s Developer ID to verify whether it’s from an identified developer. By default, macOS will warn you about any apps that are a) installed from outside the official App Store, and b) published by unidentified developers. Depending on your settings, macOS […]
Phishing is an ever-evolving type of fraud that can occur both online and offline, and can result in scammers gaining access to your personal information, such as your email address, passwords, and even your credit card details. To help ensure your private information stays private, in this article I’m going to give you the tools […]
MacKeeper is a collection of utilities, apps and services that promise to help keep your Mac clean and protected from malware, but it’s also a controversial topic amongst the Apple community. If you Google “Is MacKeeper” then the suggested results make it very clear that people aren’t entirely convinced that MacKeeper is a legitimate application. […]
If you love trying out new applications, then it’s easy to lose track of the programs that launch automatically, every single time you boot up your Mac. Having a tonne of programs running in the background is bad news for performance, so identifying apps that don’t need to launch at startup is one of the easiest […]
Even if your Mac is protected with anti-malware and anti-virus software, and you make a point of keeping your operating system and applications up to date, there’s always new security threats to worry about. Cryptocurrency mining is the latest threat that can transform your Mac into an algorithm-solving machine that generates cryptocurrency coins for website […]
In El Capitan, Apple introduced System Integrity Protect (SIP, sometimes also known as rootless), a security feature that’s designed to help protect your Mac against malicious code. Prior to El Capitan, gaining access to your Mac’s most important system files simply required the admin password, which meant that anyone with access to this password could […]
Mac applications can arrive in a number of different formats, including packaged as PKG files. In the interests of keeping your Mac secure, you should never download any file that you’re suspicious about. However if you have downloaded a PKG and are starting to have second thoughts about the place you downloaded this file from, […]
While you should always be vigilant against malware regardless of your device or operating system, MacBook users recently got a reminder about the importance of security, with the discovery of two new examples of macOS malware: Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor and OSX/Keydnap. Thankfully, two new pieces of Mac malware in a week isn’t something that happens often, but […]
The past few days have seen the emergence of one biggest Mac malware attacks in recent years in the form of the Flashback trojan. It exploits Java vulnerabilities in non-updated versions OS X to infect the Mac. Luckily there are very simple ways you can find out firstly if you have it, and then how […]
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