Categories
Hack News security Software

Security researcher examines MacKeeper, says sensitive data for more than 13 million accounts easily accessed

And yet more reasons have surfaced as to why you’d want to punch the entire staff of MacKeeper in their heads. A security researcher claims that extremely poor security has allowed him to access sensitive data for more than 13 million MacKeeper accounts. White-hat researcher Chris Vickery, who has previously exposed data breaches at MLB, […]

Categories
iOS News security Software

iCloud keychain feature goes missing from iOS 7 golden master, no clear explanation given as to why

Ok, this is a little weird. Per AppleInsider, developers updating their devices to the iOS 7 Golden Master seed have found that iCloud keychain, Apple’s new cloud-based credential storage system, has disappeared. iCloud Keychain, a new feature of iOS 7 and OS X 10.9 Mavericks that allows users to securely store account names, passwords, and […]

Categories
Mac Software

Apple Releases iPhoto 8.0.4 Update

Late Tuesday, Apple released version 8.0.4 of its iPhoto image organization and editing application. The new version, a 102.2 megabyte download, addresses a rarely encountered issue involving photos imported into a previous version that could affect overall stability, and corrects references to a few points of interest and location names that were labeled incorrectly. The […]

Categories
iPod shuffle Software

Apple Releases VoiceOver Kit 1.0.1 Update for iPod Shuffle

Late Friday, Apple released its VoiceOver Kit 1.0.1, an update containing several fixes for the newest generation of its iPod Shuffle media player. According to Macworld UK, the update, a 17 megabyte download contains corrected pronunciations for several artist names as well as a series of unspecified minor bug fixes. The update is currently not […]