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‘Apple security’ News
Keychain allow password change
In Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, if you change your account's password using your Mac OS X Tiger Install disc (or if your network-based account password is changed due to a network admin forcing a password change), your default keychain password (which uses the same initial password as your user ...
Different password for keychain in Mac
what changes should be made to Mac OS X configuration with respect to security. “The only significant change which one have to made is that the different password for my Keychain than for my user account.” That’s a change also make on all of systems. The Keychain allows you to ...
Mac and windows being target in same fashion
Macintosh platform is now becoming the target of the same sort of organized crime that affects Windows users, these attacks are still very limited in scope and in impact. Nonetheless, we ...
Freeze the credit card in mac ox
The Keychain is the most dangerous moment of brilliance ever seen. On one side, it knows your passwords to everything and lets you get away with being human while still being secure. On the other, it lets you get away with being human while being insecure. If you walk away, ...
Securing apple safari browser
Safari supports many of the same features as Mozilla Firefox. This section describes steps to disable various features in Safari. Note that some menu options may change over time, and you should adapt the steps below as appropriate.In order to change settings, select Safari and then select ...
apple released QuickTime 7.1.6
Few days ago apple released QuickTime 7.1.6, which fixes the serious QuickTime flaw uncovered as part of the hack-a-Mac contest at CanSecWest. This is one of those few updates that ...
Apple has benefited from security by obscurity, escaping attention from malicious hackers
Security researchers have long speculated that Apple has benefited from security by obscurity, escaping attention from malicious hackers because Windows-based computers dominate in homes and offices. But Apple's new Safari for Windows puts it right in hackers' cross hairs. The browser gives hackers another way to attack Windows and security ...
Apple claims mac are more secure
 Apple's recent campaign claiming its machines were more secure and less likely to crash or pick up a virus than Windows PCs has been cleared by the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). No word on whether the smugness of comedians Mitchell and Webb is likely to break acceptable bounds though.A national ...
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