Super interesting Paul. All such important information— thank you. Now trying to figure out the vault thing. I have an older MacAir but IOS is 12.6 —also old but good enough it seems to have in pre-installed.
I’ve been working with Macs close to 15 years. I’ve only seen one machine actually have Ransomeware (which was caused by someone pirating a piece of software that the user installed even though the OS prompted them several times this is an unsigned application and is dangerous) the closest thing to Malware I have seen has all been browser based, meaning the user clicked on a pop up and gave the site to install an extension which hijacks their browser. This is usually on sketchy sites and you can’t view the site until you install the extension. Uninstalling the browser then restarting it removes the plist file that causes the hijacking. In NO way ever will I recommend buy/downloading third party antivirus software on a Mac. They cause more trouble than what they are worth, OSX has so many safeguards built in already. Even windows I recommend using Defender than a third party antivirus.
Brilliant article. I need to read it several times. And I need to act! Question: I have several passwords attached to an inactive email account so I can't get the email code needed to change some passwords. I know the password I used years ago is comprimised. Any thoughts?
Oh man that’s a rough situation to be in — is there any possibility of getting access to that email again? Or possibly creating it again? If there was no recovery option setup for that account it will be very difficult to access. You may have some luck actually contacting the folks who manage the accounts you are trying to change the password to by contacting their support and telling them the situation. They may have another way to verify you are you. I wish you luck!
Super interesting Paul. All such important information— thank you. Now trying to figure out the vault thing. I have an older MacAir but IOS is 12.6 —also old but good enough it seems to have in pre-installed.
I’ve been working with Macs close to 15 years. I’ve only seen one machine actually have Ransomeware (which was caused by someone pirating a piece of software that the user installed even though the OS prompted them several times this is an unsigned application and is dangerous) the closest thing to Malware I have seen has all been browser based, meaning the user clicked on a pop up and gave the site to install an extension which hijacks their browser. This is usually on sketchy sites and you can’t view the site until you install the extension. Uninstalling the browser then restarting it removes the plist file that causes the hijacking. In NO way ever will I recommend buy/downloading third party antivirus software on a Mac. They cause more trouble than what they are worth, OSX has so many safeguards built in already. Even windows I recommend using Defender than a third party antivirus.
Brilliant article. I need to read it several times. And I need to act! Question: I have several passwords attached to an inactive email account so I can't get the email code needed to change some passwords. I know the password I used years ago is comprimised. Any thoughts?
Oh man that’s a rough situation to be in — is there any possibility of getting access to that email again? Or possibly creating it again? If there was no recovery option setup for that account it will be very difficult to access. You may have some luck actually contacting the folks who manage the accounts you are trying to change the password to by contacting their support and telling them the situation. They may have another way to verify you are you. I wish you luck!