'I'm not dead yet!'

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For those concerned: I'm working through a lot of important processes at the moment that require my diversion from keeping the Mac-Security blog up-to-date. My apologies.

However, I've hopefully provided all the required resources in my 'Friends of Mac-Security' list at the right of this page. The only other items I'd add would be to regularly check for updates from Adobe and Java updates from Oracle. Thankfully, Apple automatically and reliably alerts users to updates.

Quick notes:
• There have be a few recent species of Mac malware crawling out of the malware rat holes. You can read about them at 'The Secure Mac' linked in the 'Friends of…' list at the right.
• Adobe, Oracle and Apple have provided a huge slew of critical security updates over the past two weeks.
• Also of vital note, the Touch ID system on the iPhone 5S has been 'cracked' or circumvented by a variety of methods. IOW: It ain't perfect. In fact, it met the widespread expectation of not being much of an improvement over older fingerprint scanners. I can't personally recommend using it as anything but part of a multi-factor authorization system. Apple has kind-of, sort-of done that by integrating the requirement of a passcode for certain user behaviors and after 5 failed attempts at logging in with a fingerprint. I'll write in depth about this subject at another time.

Thanks for checking here for new posts! I expect I'll get the writing engine back up and running this weekend with a summary of what's new over the last few weeks.

:-Derek

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