Researchers at Google’s Project Zero have found a series of remote execution, memory leak, and kernel privilege escalation bugs in both iOS and iPadOS. Users who are running older OS versions should update their devices to 14.2 as soon as possible.
For years Macs were considered relatively safe from cybercrime. No one creates malware for Macs because there are so many more PCs and businesses usually run on PCs, many people believed. Criminals don’t target Macs, the prevailing opinion said. …
When Coldplay goes into the studio, the producer recording the band uses a Mac. When author Stephen King writes spine-tingling novels, he sits down every day to write on a Mac. When Pixar made animated films like “Wall-E” and “Monsters Inc.,” the studi…
When Coldplay goes into the studio, the producer recording the band uses a Mac. When author Stephen King writes spine-tingling novels, he sits down every day to write on a Mac. When Pixar made animated films like “Wall-E” and “Monsters Inc.,” the studi…
Phishing scam has fishy URLs
There’s a phishing campaign afoot that tries scamming users into believing their email accounts have been compromised. The phishing email claims multiple verification errors have caused the users’ accounts to be blackliste…
Fake Android photo apps booted off Google Play
Cybersecurity researchers identified dozens of fake apps on the Google Play Store intended solely for malicious purposes. The apps posed as Android photo enhancers, some claiming to beautify photos as the…
I recently came across a box of old photos from the late 80s, my early childhood. My parents had taken me to southern Spain for more than two weeks. And while I don’t remember much of it, here’s what stands out to me today: We don’t care about photos a…
You deserve protection online, no matter what device or operating system you are using. When we started Avast, over 30 years ago, our motto was “cybersecurity for everyone.” Today, those words still serve as our guiding star, and we are committed to pr…
Macs are beautiful machines, in both appearance and performance. The sleek designs, intuitive OS, trend-setting apps, and, yes, the anti-malware security built into the platform, make them among the most cherished items possessed by their owners.
Life just got better for Mac users who utilize VPNs.