It's Worth It App Wednesday (#WAW) again, my weekly look at a couple of apps I think are well worth spending your money on. While there are free apps for virtually every imaginable need out there these days, it's worth checking out the available paid apps, and seeing how much better designed and full-functioned they often are. Worth It [...]
Yesterday Apple released patches for their three most recent operating systems (Mavericks, Mountain Lion and Lion) to secure your computers against potential Bash/ShellShock security exploits. It's highly recommended that you download and install the appropriate patch for your Macs ASAP. If you're interested in learning what the ShellShock/Bash exploit is all about, here are a few detailed articles on it: Ars Technica, Symantec. OS X Bash Update [...]
This arrived in my email inbox today, and I know it's circulating around out there, so here's your warning. With the subject line "iTunes - Please Verify Your account - 1821980" the email appears to be from Apple, notifying you of an imminent need to update your iTunes account credentials. Don't be fooled, it's not from Apple - it's merely from somebody who's trying to steal [...]
Word is out that Living Social recently suffered a huge attack on their customer database, impacting 50 million customers across the globe. On the upside, only customer user names and passwords were compromised, and all credit card and merchant account data is safe. Of course, with all breaches of this sort, it's best to go change your Living Social password immediately. In fact Living Social [...]
While there aren’t many Mac viruses or trojans out there, unfortunately the increasing popularity of the Mac platform makes us more desirable targets than ever before. There’s hardly a need to panic or race out and buy anti-virus software, but there are some things to be aware of as you surf the web. […]
