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Featured articles from around the web. Mac OS X firewall Little Snitch is vulnerable to local escalation of privileges attacks that could give criminals the ability plant rootkits and keylogger on some Mac OS X El Capitan systems. Read more at Threatpost | The first stop for security news

Featured articles from around the web. This week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a case called United States v. Nosal, held 2-1 that using someone else’s password, even with their knowledge and permission, is a federal criminal offense. This dangerous ruling threatens to upend a good decision that the Ninth Circuit sitting en banc—i.e., with 11 judges, not just 3—made in 2012 in ...

Featured articles from around the web. Photos has long been a snooze of an app in iOS, and when its OS X complement arrived in Yosemite, it was underwhelming. Through many small releases in El Capitan, Photos’ stability improved and features expanded. Now, in iOS 10 and macOS Sierra, Photos is poised to be much more useful for the most common task after sharing: searching. Apple ...

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 Apple sure didn’t make it easy to even know ...

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 file converter application that is accessible online on reputable sites offering Mac applications ...

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, despite all the historic, non-fictional stuff on display there. Anyway, the ...

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 a lot more about audio than most, but there are certain facts ...

Featured articles from around the web. Apple has a reputation for discarding legacy features on their products well before their competition and sometimes before their time. Each time it does so, it creates a firestorm of reaction. You might think Apple does it just for publicity’s sake. But looking back, their decisions have generally proved to be insightful, if not always understood. I recall the fury ...

Featured articles from around the web. It’s been a week since macOS Sierra was announced by Apple, and I’ve gotten a chance to spend a few days using it. If you’ve only seen the highlights from Apple’s keynote, though, you may have missed a bunch of cool features that have flown beneath the radar. Here’s a look at some interesting features that you might have ...

Featured articles from around the web. Mikah Sargent, writing for iMore, with a heart-sickening tale: On the night of Monday, June 13, someone stole my 12.9-inch iPad Pro from my bag during the annual Beard Bash event. I won’t go into the gritty details, but suffice it to say my valuables (as well as those of my colleague Serenity Caldwell) were in a secure location. Unfortunately, ...