by Terry McAdams | Jun 23, 2020 | Apple Watch, Mac, productivity, Security, Tip
If you’ve resisted requiring a password on your Mac after it wakes up or comes out of the screen saver because it’s too much work to enter repeatedly, an Apple Watch can make authentication much easier. In previous versions of macOS, just wearing an unlocked Apple...
by Terry McAdams | Jun 18, 2020 | Apple Watch, Mac, passwords, Security, Tip
Tired of typing your admin account password whenever you try to install software or change security settings on your Mac? A new feature in macOS 10.15 Catalina removes that requirement for Apple Watch owners. In System Preferences > Security & Privacy >...
by Terry McAdams | Jun 11, 2020 | iPhone, Security
Spearfishing. It’s no longer just a tropical ocean sport that might provide seafood for dinner. In today’s tech world, spearfishing is when someone targets you specifically, usually with the goal of taking over your online accounts. Once that’s done, the attacker will...
by Terry McAdams | Aug 10, 2019 | Mac, Security
If you own an iMac Pro, or a Mac mini, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro model introduced in 2018 or later, your Mac has one of Apple’s T2 security chips inside. On the whole, having a T2 chip in your Mac is a good thing, thanks to significantly increased security and other...
by Lucy McAdams | Mar 19, 2019 | Email, Security
We get asked everyday if an email is “real” or a scam, and how to tell. So here we go, pay attention y’all….. A significant danger to businesses today is phishing—the act of forging email to fool someone into revealing login credentials, credit...
by Lucy McAdams | Jan 11, 2019 | passwords, Security
Have you gotten an email message whose Subject line says something like “Change your password immediately! Your account has been hacked.”? If not, it may be only a matter of time before you do. It’s a scary message, especially because it contains one of your...
