Despite the advances made by Macs in both the corporate and home PC markets, there are still many more Windows PCs in the world than there are those running OS X. But there are a lot more iOS devices --...
On March 4, 2016, Palo Alto Networks sent out a warning about a new piece of ransomware that affected Mac OS X. The ransomware was named KeRanger, was infecting installers for the popular open source BitTorrent app Transmission, and as...
If web traffic reports at many Apple-centric websites are any indication, most Mac owners choose to use the default web browser -- Safari -- for their Internet travels. But Google Chrome is a powerful web browser that provides many capabilities that...
If you use Xcode to write apps for any Apple device, the company wants you to validate your version of Xcode and make sure that you never download a copy from anywhere else. Rocket Yard readers are probably aware of recent...
With all due respect to some very talented developers who are firmly in the iOS jailbreak camp, it might be time for iPhone and iPad users to just give up those tweaks that they feel they can't live without. Why?...
It was reported Monday that the first firmware worm that is able to infect Macs called “Thunderstrike 2” has been created by researchers. According to Wired, “An attacker could first remotely compromise the boot flash firmware on a MacBook by...
Back in May, security firm Trend Micro discovered a flaw in Google’s Android mobile operating system that was acknowledged by Google as being a “low priority vulnerability.” That exploit, which affected Android 4.3 Jelly Bean up to Android 5.1.1 Lollipop,...
On June 8, 2015 at 10 a.m. PT, Apple executives, developers, and the press converge at Moscone West in San Francisco to kick off a week of announcements and sessions at the 2015 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that point...
Scams are nothing new on the Internet. But one that has become more prevalent recently is the “pop-up tech support” scam. For example, while browsing the Internet, a user sees a pop-up or a page that warns that their Mac...
