Apple is releasing a macOS bug bounty program for the first time. Despite the fact that other big companies, like Google and Microsoft, have been offering bug bounty programs for a long time, Apple had only been providing financial rewards for iOS, and not for...
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Apple Granted Patent for Face ID on Macs
Apple has been granted a new patent suggesting that Face ID is coming to Macs soon. The patent could use the Mac’s camera to automatically wake up when its camera sensor locates users. The new feature is going to be a more intelligent version of...
MAC.OSX.Niqtana Trojan Removal
What is MAC.OSX.Niqtana MAC.OSX.Niqtana belongs to the category of Trojan infections. A Trojan virus or a Trojan horse is a type of malware which infiltrates your Mac and starts performing malicious operations. Due to the fact that MAC.OSX.Niqtana uses rather similar tactics to the Trojan...
More Than 200 Apps Will Not Be Compatible with macOS Catalina
Third-party iOS developer and Apple blogger Steve Moser who runs the latest version of macOS Catalina, has just published a list of apps which will not be compatible with Apple’s upcoming update. Moser’s list includes 235 apps on his website, The Tape Drive, while testing...
uTorrent Client for Mac Stops Working on macOS Catalina
BitTorrent Inc. reported that it has decided to effectively discontinue its uTorrent client for macOS Catalina launching this fall. In this way, after 11 years of use, Mac users will no longer be able to download the world’s most popular torrent client on their machines....
Apple Launches macOS Mojave 10.14.6 Supplemental Update to Fix Sleeping Macs
About a week ago, Apple issued macOS 10.14.6, however, the company has already launched a Supplemental Update. The update, which was released yesterday, addresses an issue preventing certain Macs from waking up from sleep properly. According to the problem description, it appears that some Macs...
Application.MAC.OSX.Intercepter PUA Removal
What is Application.MAC.OSX.Intercepter Unwanted applications are often the cause behind the abnormal advertisement content you see every time you open your browser. Application.MAC.OSX.Intercepter falls into that same category – it is classified as a Potentially Unwanted Application, or PUA for short. This type of malicious...
Apple Seeds Fourth macOS Catalina Public Beta
Yesterday, Apple released the fourth beta of the upcoming macOS Catalina update to public beta testers. Public beta 4 came out two weeks after the company launched its third public beta and just a day after issuing the fifth developer beta of macOS Catalina. All...
Apple Sued Over Spellcheck Functions On Mac, iPhone and iPad
The plaintiff – Sentius Corporation (now known as Sentius International, LLC), says it was a Newton developer, and have also created the Sentius Electronic Book Player for Mac. It’s been reported that Apple bundled the Sentius EB Player app with all home computers shipped in...
Application.MAC.OSX.AoboKeyLogger PUA Removal
What is Application.MAC.OSX.AoboKeyLogger Application.MAC.OSX.AoboKeylogger has been categorized by malware researchers as a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA). This malicious software is responsible for the abnormal amount of advertisements that are being shown every time you open your browser. Consequent to the heavy ad attack is your...