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!
Apple has three great checklists that we’re featuring on this week’s eposide: If you want to see if anyone else has access to your device or accounts, If you want to stop sharing with someone whom you previously shared with, and If you want to make sure no one else can see your location.
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This week on the Checklist, security researcher Patrick Wardle joins us to discuss the new Silver Sparrow malware variant.
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This week on The Checklist, we talk with award-winning educator Robert Speciale, whose innovative program is teaching cybersecurity to high school students
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Privacy Labels have landed in the App Store for a number of apps. We’ll cover what those are, what they cover, why some apps don’t have them, and what you can do with the information on them.
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We’ll look at Apple’s App Tracking Transparency push, as well as its war of words with Facebook this week.
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This week on the Checklist, iMore’s Stephen Warwick joins us to discuss all things Zoom.
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We’ll look at various states of data, what we have to worry about, and what we can do to mitigate that worry. Plus – A followup to Apple flouting the firewall.
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With a new year just underway, we thought we’d look back at five big Mac malware stories for 2020. We’ll talk about FinSpy, GravityRAT, XCSSET, ThiefQuest, and Shlayer.
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It’s the perfect time to make positive changes, so this week we’re bringing you two cybersecurity-themed New Year’s resolutions that will help keep you safe through 2021 and beyond.
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Voices of Checklists passed tell us about their favorite hacker movies, including Hackers, WarGames, Sneakers, and Superman III. What did they get right? What did they get wrong? And what can we learn from them? Snuggle up for The Hacky Holidays Special.
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The holidays! A time of love, warmth, and good cheer. Also, prime time for scammers. We’ll look at some delivery scams and how to avoid them.
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With time ticking down, you may be ordering IoT things for holiday gifts. Be sure what you’re buying is safe! We’ve got a Checklist for that. Plus – 33 vulnerabilities pose a threat to “millions” of IoT devices.
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You trust Apple. You trust the firewall you’ve set up on your Mac. But – do you trust Apple to decide what your firewall should stop and what it shouldn’t? Patrick Wardle joins us to discuss the issue on Checklist 209 – brought to you by SecureMac.
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The holiday season is here again…but this year, of course, is a little bit different. With more of us shopping from home than ever before, we’ll show you the safest ways to buy gifts online. On this Checklist, we cover:
5 best practices for 2020 shoppingShopping extensions and your security
Safe shopping: a Checklist checklist
Checklist listeners may be familiar with some of the following tips, but it’s always a good idea to review best practices every so often—and especially around this time of year, when scams and cyberattacks are at their peak. …
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macOS Big Sur has arrived. Or, we’ve gotten to Big Sur. Whatever the case, there’s a host of new privacy and security features in the Mac’s latest operating system. We’re talking over some of them with SecureMac’s Nick Leon on Checklist 207.
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This week on the Checklist, we’ll look at why some analysts think Apple could be gearing up to challenge Google’s search supremacy. We’ll discuss: Why people think Apple is getting into search, and What an Apple search engine could mean for privacy.
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This week on the Checklist, we’ll cover two timely topics: cyberattacks on hospitals, and a voting contingency plan.
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The 2020 U.S. elections are just days away, and cybercriminals — some motivated by politics, others by financial gain — are stepping up their attacks. We’ll let you know what’s happening on this edition of the Checklist.
Voter intimidation emails attributed to Iran
We’ve talked before about the issue of foreign adversaries attempting to interfere with the upcoming U.S. elections, but this week a disturbing new development came to light.
According to the FBI and Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, Russia and Iran have obtained the voter registration data of American citizens, …
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On this week’s Checklist, we’ll cover:
How Macs are perceived in the enterpriseAn addendum to last week’s T2 storyA checklist of security tips from the NCSA
Survey says…
Do you feel like your Mac is the best choice for security? You’re not alone.
A recent survey conducted by enterprise software management platform Jamf asked businesses—both ones that used Macs and ones that didn’t—what they thought about the Mac in terms of security.
Across the board, 77% of all organizations polled said that they believed the Mac to be more secure “out of the box”, though …
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This week’s big news: an “unpatchable” hardware vulnerability affecting Apple’s T2 security chip! But how serious is it, really? We spoke with Mac security expert Patrick Wardle to separate the facts from the clickbait headlines. We’ll cover:
the technical backgroundwho’s impacted (and what they can do)
Parsing the T2 story
The Apple security community was abuzz this week with news of an unpatchable vulnerability in the T2 security chip found in newer Macs.
To begin with, a quick refresher: The T2 chip is essentially a co-processor that handles much of the Mac’s security functionality, …
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