New Backdoor Allows Full Access to Mac Systems

Featured articles from around the web. My pal PowerUser82 has found another ‘pearl’ to share with me: New Backdoor Allows Full Access to Mac Systems, Bitdefender Warns → A new piece of malware, dubbed Backdoor.MAC.Eleanor by Bitdefender researchers, exposes Apple systems to cyber-espionage and full, clandestine control from malicious third-parties. The backdoor is embedded into a fake … Read more

Digital Audio Progress Highlights Tech’s More Human Future

Featured articles from around the web. What happens when a technology gets as good as it can? It’s an interesting question, and not necessarily as far-fetched or ill-timed as you may imagine. Consider the world of digital audio. As a musician, music lover, former music equipment industry journalist and self-professed audiophile, I admit to caring … Read more

USS Enterprise comes out of the workshop ↦

Featured articles from around the web. In my very first post to this site, I linked to an article about how the original “Star Trek” USS Enterprise model had been moved out of the Smithsonian for a loving restoration. Seeing that model was the highlight of my childhood trip to the Air & Space Museum, … Read more

→ Switching to Apple’s two-factor authentication

Featured articles from around the web. Apple has, for a while now, offered two separate additional security measures to protect your Macs, iOS devices, and iCloud account, but thanks to some inexpert nomenclature, it can be a little difficult to tell them apart I’m glad Dan Moren figured this out and wrote it up, because … Read more