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Apple working with FBI on San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone, still refusing to create backdoor to allow entry

Following up on last week’s coverage of Apple, the FBI, the Department of Justice, Donald Trump screaming about things and the San Bernadino shooter’s locked iPhone, it turns out that Apple has apparently offered the FBI four different options for recovering data on the iPhone 5c used by Syed Rizwan Farook. None of those methods […]

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1Password for Mac updated to 6.0

1Password just hit version 6.0 for the Mac. AgileBits’ password manager has just been updated to version 6.0 and the changes are pretty massive: All Vaults View: This allows you to see all of your items in the main app and mini app without switching vaults. Vaults can also be created for families and teams, […]

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Security researcher examines MacKeeper, says sensitive data for more than 13 million accounts easily accessed

And yet more reasons have surfaced as to why you’d want to punch the entire staff of MacKeeper in their heads. A security researcher claims that extremely poor security has allowed him to access sensitive data for more than 13 million MacKeeper accounts. White-hat researcher Chris Vickery, who has previously exposed data breaches at MLB, […]

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Apple, Google remove InstaAgent app after password-stealing malware detected

This is the joy of the war against malware. Both Apple and Google have removed the InstaAgent app from their respective app stores after it was discovered that the app was storing users’ Instagram usernames and passwords in an unencrypted form, before sending them on to unknown servers. InstaAgent, which tied in with Instagram, had […]

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Vulnerabilities noted for several models of Seagate external drives, patch offered

If you’re using a Seagate external hard drive, you may want to be aware of both the security risks present on the drive as well as the patch that was just released to fix the vulnerability. A series of vulnerabilities primarily affect owners of Seagate Wireless Plus Mobile Storage, Seagate Wireless Mobile Storage, and LaCie […]