There is little doubt about the fact that Apple is one of the most revolutionary technology companies in the world. It’s no longer a product, it’s a brand par excellence. Apple has amazed the world on such a scale that fans have even gone to the extent of selling their organs to get the latest iPhone or Mac. Yes that actually happened!
These days, personal information has become as precious as gold to those who know what to do with it. Some will have more nefarious purposes than others but what they all have in common is the fact that they’ll go to great lengths to obtain your personal information.
My new client sent me a beta copy of their new Mac program but when I try to launch it I get an error “xx can’t be opened because it’s from an unidentified developer.” How do I circumvent this in MacOS X and launch the program anyway?
An exploit has surfaced that suggests many MacOS X systems (MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac and similar) can have security bypassed by using “root” user. Yikes! How do I know if that’s a risk on my computer and fix it if my Mac is vulnerable?
How can I stop my iMac trying to log me off when I leave it unattended for a while?
Windows PC and Android users are used to the continuous stream of updates available for both operating system and applications software. Even iOS users receive a regular diet of app updates. The flow of updates for Apple software is relatively scant by comparison. That changed this week with Apple releasing updates for all of their major software platforms, including iOS, MacOS, their Safari browser, WatchOS, tvOS and both iCloud and iTunes on Windows platforms.
What prompted so many updates all at once? Security.
I’ve been wondering, how do I check to see if there’s an update to my current version of Mac OS X on my MacBook or iMac, and if there is one, how do I update Mac OS X on my computer?
I’ve been reading about this newly discovered bug in the Bash Unix shell command line interface called “shellshock” and it apparently puts my Mac OS X system at risk? How do I fix my iMac before it’s hacked?
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