SecureMac presents The Checklist. Each week, Ken Ray and guests hit security topics. From getting an old iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, and other Apple gear ready to sell to the first steps to take to secure new hardware, each show contains a set of easy to follow steps meant to keep you safe from identity thieves, hackers, malware, and other digital downfalls. Check in each Thursday for a new Checklist!
This week, we’re going to the movies! It’s our special summer security blockbusters edition of The Checklist, where we take a fun and whimsical look at some of the big technical concerns that pop up in our favorite movies and how they can relate to some real-life issues, too.
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On this week’s episode: Samsung takes heat for advising SmartTV security, La Liga: Revisited, and An app hears taps and guesses passwords.
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On this week’s episode: A four-year security breach at Checkers and Rally’s, Microsoft suggests killing off killing off passwords, and Apple leaves room to peek into MDM deployments
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This week, we aren’t tackling an organized list as such — more like a rundown of a ton of events in a free-ranging discussion! We’re talking about WWDC, of course, the Worldwide Developers Conference Apple hosted this week. It’s an annual event where Apple often makes its big software announcements for the year and lays out the road ahead for the company’s technology. We’re looking at some of the security moves Apple made and some of the exciting upcoming changes and new developments. Buckle up — we’ve got a lot …
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On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac: Apps are talking in your sleep, A case against tracking software for kids, A followup on ZombieLoad, and Automatic updates and. FileVault.
Is your phone talking behind your back? It might seem like an odd question, but the answer might be as surprising to you as it recently was to some security researchers. Here’s another question: how closely should you monitor your kids? Despite the popularity of child tracking apps, today we’ll be making a case for why you shouldn’t rush out to install them. Those …
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We mention two-factor authentication quite a bit, but it’s been a while since we took a close look. On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac: Different types of authentication, What kinds of accounts should employ it, and August tells a 2FA tale.
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A tricky class of vulnerability rises from the grave to trouble us again, one of the world’s most popular communications apps turns out to have a glaring flaw in its code that requires an immediate update to fix, and it’s time again to update your Apple devices — those stories, and all the details you need to know, are right here on today’s show. Here are the stories we’re checking off our list:
Zombies on the ProwlNews of a WhatsApp VulnerabilityA Slew of Updates from Apple
It’s the night of living dead …
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On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac: Security breach on pump four, A U.S. city under cyber siege, and Keeping 12-year-olds off of dating apps.
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On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac: Free viewing, plus bonus malware, 80 million households exposed, Is Facebook ACTUALLY working on user privacy?
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On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac, we talk over the digital facts of life with mom and dad. Our topics include: Ellen Degeneres is NOT giving things away on Facebook, How to share your wifi network (and why you may not want to) & Password safety: Because we keep being unsafe with our passwords
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On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac: Worried about your internet of things things? Princeton has a tool for that!, Worried about hotels and data security? You should be!, Apple’s new steps against scammy subscriptions,and Facebook: amiright…?
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On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac: More enterprise certificate abuse, Threats to put CEOs in the poker and A layer of certification for Mac apps.
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Do you eat at restaurants? Do you use a phone? Do you even, dare we ask… go shopping? Then boy, do we have an episode for you this week! These might sound like mundane questions, but with this week’s stories, we’ll see that sometimes that’s all you need to do to end up exposed to threats against your security and privacy. That’s not to frighten you, though — after all, knowledge is the best defense against these threats. We’re not only telling you about what’s happened already but how you …
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On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac we’ll be discussing: The Good: Senators try to protect children’s data, The Bad: FEMA exposes the data of over 2-million disaster victims, and The Buggly: Apple fixes a boatload of security issues.
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On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac we talk about: Viruses or Malware, Can iPhone get either?, Congress considers facial recognition legislation and MySpace teaches us all about backups.
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On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac: Congress nibbles at the Internet of Things, Out of sight is not off the grid and A show worthy of a security conference.
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On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac: Hear ye, the Thunderclap, Google’s Project Zero hits Apple & The EFF wants encryption in the cloud.
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On this week’s Checklist by SecureMac: Popular Apps Send Your Info to Facebook, The State of Play for Consumer Privacy, Pulling the Plug on Onavo Protect, Which Nests are Miked-Up, The Senate Wants to See Google’s CEO
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On this week’s show we talk about: Little Nests have big ears, Google crosses one of its own privacy lines, and when sharing can be a bad thing…
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On this week’s episode we talk about: apps that record what you’re up to, pirates on the Enterprise, and 2FA has a day in court (for some reason).
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