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2023-02-26 Legal Tort Liability to Require Email for Login ID?
2023-02-26 Is Your Password Known to Hackers?
2023-02-25 WSJ: A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life
2023-02-25 Using a Password Manager or Any Stored Passwords on a Portable Device is a Terrible Idea?
2023-02-25 Apple iOS: Your Digital Life Stolen if Passcode Compromised? How it Works
2023-02-25 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) for Securing your Computer of Phone or Tablet Logins
2023-02-17 Zero-Day Exploits for macOS, iOS Could Cost you Your Life Savings, Identity Theft, etc.
2023-01-05 Twitter Data Breach: Hack Put 200 Million Users' Private Info Up For Grabs
2023-01-02 Why Passkeys Will Be Simpler and More Secure Than Passwords
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2021-06-01 Site Security Upgraded to TLSv1.2
2021-04-16 Reader Comment: Sony Firmware Update Methodology Worst Out There, Plus Potential Security Risk
2020-10-14 Mail-In Ballots Raise Risk of Ballot Fraud by Exposing Name, Address, Signature
2020-04-10 Evicted from Alabama Hills: Security Theater Brought to Bear on Health
2020-04-10 Evicted from Alabama Hills: Security Theater Brought to Bear on Health
2020-04-09 United States National Security Policy Should be to Eliminate Key Supply Chains from China
2019-03-21 About Security Precautions at diglloyd.com
2017-12-19 Sony A7R III: Updating the Firmware on macOS High Sierra
2017-11-07 Reader Comment: Adorama vs B&H Photo In-Store Experience
How To Guides
How to perform useful tasks and upgrades..
Setting Up Your Mac For Better Security
Reduce the chances of security breaches..
- Set up a Normal User Account (and use it)
- Keep System Software Up To Date
- Disable Automatic Login
- Disable Incoming Internet Connections
- Disable Safari’s 'Open Safe Files by Default'
- Disable Java in Safari
- Apple Mail Security: Disable Loading of Remote Content
- Apple Mail Security: Viewing Mail Headers
- Put Adobe Flash on a Leash
- Safe Settings for Adobe Flash
- Turn Bluetooth Off
- Turn Off Unused Network Services
- File Sharing and Remote Access
- Use a Hardware Firewall With Unroutable LAN
- Prefer Wired Internet; Avoid Wireless Internet
- Use a Bastion Server
- More Diligent Measures, Even Hardware Removal
Password Managers and Encryption
Use high quality passwords, identities, logins conveniently..
Optimizing Mac Performance
Learn about Activity Monitor and understand how CPU cores, processes, memory use, and software scalability affect performance..
OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Mountain Lion tips and how-to..
Solid State Drives, Various
SSDs and thumb drives..
ioSafe N2 Fireproof and Waterproof NAS
Network attached storage with fire and flood protection..
Blog posts
2023
2023-02-26 Legal Tort Liability to Require Email for Login ID?
2023-02-26 Is Your Password Known to Hackers?
2023-02-25 WSJ: A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life
2023-02-25 Using a Password Manager or Any Stored Passwords on a Portable Device is a Terrible Idea?
2023-02-25 Apple iOS: Your Digital Life Stolen if Passcode Compromised? How it Works
2023-02-25 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) for Securing your Computer of Phone or Tablet Logins
2023-02-17 Zero-Day Exploits for macOS, iOS Could Cost you Your Life Savings, Identity Theft, etc.
2023-01-05 Twitter Data Breach: Hack Put 200 Million Users' Private Info Up For Grabs
2023-01-02 Why Passkeys Will Be Simpler and More Secure Than Passwords
2023-01-01 How to Create a Password System You Can Live With
2023-01-01 Apple VPN Leakage Goes Unaddressed
2022
2022-12-08 FBI ‘Deeply Concerned’ After Apple Says Nearly All iCloud Data Now Has End-to-End Encryption
2022-11-21 Apple Analytics Personally Identifies You While Marketing the Piss Out of “Privacy”?
2022-06-27 Locked Out of my Own Desktop: Confusing, but an Easy Fix Found
2022-03-02 macOS Monterey Locks Me Out of my 2019 Mac Pro after Reboot, Repudiating my Login Password
2022-02-15 A Bit More Privacy For WiFi on your iPhone
2022-01-11 Kudos to Apple for its New “Private Relay” Feature
2022-01-11 Kudos to Apple for its Mail Privacy Protection Feature
2021
2021-10-04 macOS Big Sur Locks Me Out of my 2019 Mac Pro after Kernel Panic, Repudiating my Login Password
2021-09-26 Apple is slow to fix critical security bugs, leaving you vulnerable to disaster
2021-09-13 macOS and iOS: Zero-click Security Bug Finally Fixed
2021-07-21 Phishing Scams: “urgent favor please, traveling and need help buying gift card”
2021-07-02 Comcast Cable Modems Are Flaky In General, Cannot do Port Forwarding or Port Mapping
2021-04-29 macOS Big Sur 11.3: Upgrade ASAP for fix to 0-Day Gatekeeper Security Exploit (Apple CVE-2021-30657)
2020
2020-12-28 Apple Punished Employee for Approving App That Was Critical of Beijing, Lawsuit Alleges
2020-11-27 Apple Spyware in macOS Big Sur Cannot be Disabled (“sneak.berlin: Your Computer Isn’t Yours”)
2020-10-06 Apple T2 Chip: Unfixable Security Flaw that Gives Attacker Full Control
2020-09-01 Apple Core Rot: Apple Notarizes Adware (Malware), Compromises User Systems
2020-07-29 How Secure Boot and System Integrity Protection Guard Your Mac From Malware
2020-06-25 Faster WiFi with Antennas and Beamforming? (Updated with reader comments)
2020-02-03 macOS Catalina 10.15.3: Privacy Tab Does not Work — Files and Folders Inoperable
2020-02-01 macOS Catalina 10.15.3 Disables all of my Samsung T5 Backup Drives
2020-01-20 Upgrading from macOS Catalina to macOS Mojave (“downgrading” to macOS Mojave)
2020-01-19 How to Add File/Folder Access Permissions in macOS Catalina, including Full Disk Access
2020-01-19 How to Add File/Folder Access Permissions for Java in macOS Catalina
2020-01-18 Apple Core Rot: macOS Catalina Fails to Update Critical Security Settings
2020-01-02 2019 Mac Pro: Hardware Elegance, macOS Crapalina Belongs in the Toilet
2019
2019-12-19 Beware of Email Phishing: Faux FedEx Example
2019-11-26 macOS and iOS: How to Exclude the Wrong WiFi Network
2019-11-17 Apple iPhone Face Recognition: Amazingly Seamless but Fails in Dim Light (UPDATED with ideas to try)
2019-08-28 Beware of Phishing — Fake Chase Bank
2019-05-09 Browser Hijacking: the WeKnow.ac Malware
2019-03-30 Concerned about macOS Security Fixes
2019-03-01 Apple Apparently IGNORES Researcher’s Report of 0-Day Exploit for macOS KeyChain
2019-02-15 Beware of Phishing — Fake Chase Bank
2019-01-30 Apple Revokes Facebook’s Enterprise Certificate
2019-01-28 Apple Core Rot at its Finest: the Apple Facetime Bug Clown Show
2018
2018-12-11 Using Apple FileVault for Data Security
2018-11-21 Amazon Compromises my Email Address
2018-11-18 Beware of Phishing Based on Fear of Secret Porn Behavior and Real Password Compromise
2018-11-07 Apple Core Rot is Back with a Vengeance in the Latest Security Update for macOS 10.13.6
2018-10-11 Beware of Phishing — Fake “Apple Limited”
2018-05-21 The Internet of Things (IoT) Poses Huge Numbers of Worldwide Security Risks, Large and Small
2018-05-20 Apple Core Rot: It’s Big Things, and Hundreds of Little Ones, that Together Add up to Chaos
2018-04-28 Beware of Phishing — Fake “Apple Limited”
2018-04-28 Apple’s Problems with Severe Security Bugs Continue
2018-03-28 Apple’s Tim Cook Weighs in on Facebook
2018-03-24 Concussion
2018-02-24 Apple Throws Chinese Users Under the Bus
2018-02-13 Apple iOS Source Code In the Wild
2018-01-11 Detecting and Preventing Credit Card and Similar Financial Fraud via Text Notifications
2018-01-11 Apple Quality Control: Enough is Enough
2018-01-10 Nasty macOS High Sierra Bug: Unlock AppStore Preferences with *any* Password
2017
2017-11-30 Perspective on Apple Core Rot Over Some Years
2017-11-28 The Most Serious Apple Software Quality Failure Yet: Logging-in 'root' without any password
2017-11-20 Security Expert Bruce Schneier Weighs In on the Equifax Breach
2017-10-16 Mobile Phone Companies Sell your Name and Location Data
2017-10-16 Equifax: It Just Keeps Getting Better, for Hackers
2017-10-16 All your WIFI are belong to us: Major vulnerability in WPA2 to be released
2017-10-05 macOS HighSierra: Brief Use Brings Relief in a Way: Worth Ignoring for a While
2017-06-19 Apple iPhone Security: Pocket Dialing
2017-05-22 Security: Phishing Email Purporting to be a Buyer Complaint
2017-05-15 On Ransomware
2017-05-10 Security: Phishing Email Purporting to be a Password Reset Notification
2017-05-09 Tired of Being Tracked and Bombarded with Ads? Ghostery
2017-04-15 Getting Your Devices and Data Over the U.S. Border
2017-03-28 Caution on macOS 10.12.4: sudo is broken, sudo hangs before password for nearly 5 minutes
2017-03-17 Security: Another Phishing Example (plus Apple Junk Mail Bug)
2017-03-07 Wikileaks Reveals Many Things... like Televisions as Covert Listening Devices
2017-02-28 “Our digital fingerprints are everywhere. How do we protect ourselves?” — Stanford Engineering
2017-01-30 Security: Phishing Email Purporting to be a Password Reset Notification
2017-01-10 macOS BloatWare (and what feels like SpyWare)
2016
2016-12-13 macOS 10.12.2 Update
2016-12-13 Two-Factory Security for macOS
2016-12-08 Malware Hides in Advertising
2016-12-01 Wiping Personal Data Off a Mac that is Being Returned or Sold
2016-11-18 Apple iPhone Secretly Uploading Call Logs when iCloud is Enabled?
2016-11-18 2016 MacBook Pro: the Touchbar Already Saving Me Time
2016-11-09 The Internet of Things is a Disaster Waiting to Happen (Self-Propagating Smart Light Bulb Worm)
2016-10-10 Yahoo’s Bulk Surveillance of Every Account under Government Coercion
2016-10-07 macOS Sierra: Crashes Viewing Folders with Images (while selecting them)
2016-09-23 Half a BILLION User Accounts Compromised
2016-09-03 Updated: Diglloyd Photoshop Benchmarks
2016-09-02 Risky “Zero Day” Exploit Bugs Fixed in iOS 9.3.5 for iPhone, also in OS X
2016-08-07 Brazen Example of Phishing
2016-07-23 Don’t Get Scammed / Phished by Look-Alike Emails (UPS Example)
2016-06-22 Apple Mail Security: Viewing Mail Headers
2016-06-18 Don’t Get Scammed / Phished by Look-Alike Emails (PayPal Example)
2016-04-27 What’s all the Fuss About iPhone Security Anyway?
2016-04-04 Corporate Security Breaches: Best Practices, and Why Sensitive Info Should be Removable
2016-03-07 Schneier: Data is a Toxic Asset
2016-03-07 OS X Malware: Ransomware Encrypts Data, Demands Payment to Recover
2016-02-26 The Crypto Wars Redux
2015
2015-12-31 Don’t Get Scammed (Phished) by Amazon Promotional Credit Scams
2015-12-23 Web Browser Cookies + OS X El Capitan: Safari Cookie Security?
2015-10-22 Reader Question: Charge-Only Lightning cable
2015-09-23 Apple XCode Ghost Compromises some Apps in the Apple App Store
2015-09-19 A Big Privacy Lie: Anonymization
2015-09-18 RFID Blocking Sleeves for Passport, Credit Cards
2015-09-14 Security is only as good as its implementation (or as bad as its incompetent implementation)
2015-08-22 Don’t Get Phished by Ashley Madison Scams!
2015-08-16 Apple ID Account Hassles Continue
2015-07-09 The Risks of Mandating Backdoors in Encryption Products
2015-06-30 UPDATE: Your Passwords are at Risk with OS X and iOS?
2015-06-29 Don’t Get Suckered In By Spam Email (Phishing) #2
2015-06-22 Don’t Get Suckered In By Spam Email (Phishing) #1
2015-06-18 All your passwords at risk with OS X and iOS, and Apple Sits on the Problem
2015-04-08 OS X 10.10.3 Security Updates
2015-03-22 OS X Security: Various Developments
2015-03-04 OS X and Malware
2015-02-20 Adware = Malware (Lenovo and https)
2015-02-19 Is Nothing Safe Any More? Cellular Phones Compromised En Masse
2015-02-14 Lockdown: The Coming War on General Computing
2015-01-22 Apple Core Rot: More Views
2015-01-13 ioSafe Fireproof NAS
2015-01-13 Newfangled Popup Password Dialogs Defeat Password Managers
2015-01-09 Spotlight Builds in a Feature Spammers Could Only Dream About
2015-01-09 Possible Work-Around for Spotlight Privacy/Security bug of Indexing Spam Email
2014
2014-12-23 Troubling Precedent: Apple Pushes Security Update Without User Permission (NTP Security Flaw)
2014-12-21 Virtualization for Safer Software Updates
2014-12-21 Thunderbolt EFI Exploit
2014-12-21 OWC Turnkey Upgrade Program for Mac Pro
2014-12-13 Sea Change: Security is Your Job Also, the Writing is on the Wall
2014-12-13 Procedure for Minimizing Risks with a Software Updater that Runs as 'root'
2014-12-01 Adobe DreamWeaver CC 2014 Does Not Launch! How to Fix Preference Permissions
2014-11-25 A Pseudo-Security Trend: Password Reset and Locked Accounts
2014-11-13 iPhone / iPad: New Security Risks Emerge
2014-11-05 Apple iCloud: Promiscous Saving for Security Lapses
2014-10-22 The 'Cloud' is DEFINITELY a Huge and Tempting Target for Hackers
2014-10-15 Unlovely: Password Negligence at Financial Institutions
2014-10-15 Lovely: Long Ugly Passwords
2014-10-14 The 'Cloud' Remains a Huge and Tempting Target for Hackers
2014-10-13 Recommended: 1Password for Both Higher Security and Convenience
2014-10-07 Patches for 'bash' Shell Vulnerability
2014-09-07 Don’t Assume that a Password Manager is Safe, Auto-Fill for Password a Bad Idea
2014-05-19 Special: 4TB for $165, also, 1TB Laptop Drives
2014-05-17 Crypto Won’t Save You Either
2014-03-13 Metadata = Surveillance
2014-03-05 WebCam Internet Security
2014-03-03 How to Choose a Secure Password
2014-02-25 OS X 10.9.2 Reportedly Fixes the TLS/SSL Security Bug
2014-02-22 Major Security Flaw in Apple iOS and Apple OS X, Involves Fundamental TLS / SSL Security Protocols
2013
2013-10-08 How the NSA Compromises Systems (Firefox and Tor Too)
2013-10-03 Security Breach at Adobe for 2.9 MILLION Customers
2013-05-23 The Implications of a Centralized App Store and Centralization in General: Single Point of Failure
2013-05-08 Adobe Creative Cloud: Date of Birth Mandatory, Lopsided Legal Agreement
2013-05-01 The Commercialization of Digital Spying
2013-03-31 So You Actually Trust Your Sensitive Data to Apple’s iCloud ?
2012
2012-08-28 Oracle Java 7 Critical Security Hole — Affects Java in Web Browser
2012-04-05 Turn Off Java — Flashback Trojan Risk
2012-02-16 What Are the Implications for Application Signing?
2011
2011-10-21 Forgot the Mac’s Admin Password?
2011-06-05 Securing Your Mac — More Pages Added
2011-06-01 Basic Steps for Safer Computing
2011-05-04 Remote Access To Photoshop via iPhone, iPad
2011-03-22 Anti-virus on Mac OS X— Vulnerabilities