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A group of attackers known as WindShift, suspected to be backed by a nation-state, has been using vulnerabilities in Apple's macOS operating system to target specific individuals in government and critical infrastructure across the Persian Gulf.

The Lazarus group, an advanced persistent threat actor that is claimed to have North Korean links, has broken into a number of banks and cryptocurrency exchanges and fintech companies over the last few months, the security firm Kaspersky Lab claims.

Parallels Desktop 14 for Mac has arrived with some interesting new capabilities and integrations.

For those running macOS Mojave beta like myself, the announcement of NTFS for Mojave as a free download is very welcome, as is the ability to let Windows read Mac-formatted APFS drives.

If you've been waiting for Apple to release the first public beta of iOS 12 for iPhones, iPads and the iPod touch, and you've been curious to see the first tvOS 12 beta too, the wait is over.

The latest version of Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft SCCM allows administrators to manage remote Macs via the Internet.

Apple has taken a shot at Facebook during its Worldwide Developer Conference, unveiling features in its Safari browser that will limit the way the social media company tracks and collects data.

If you aren't watching Apple's twice-yearly keynotes for WWDC and the iPhones launches, you're missing out on a wealth of fantastic information on what the near future looks like.

The biggest and best Apple developer conference worldwide is Apple's own yearly WWDC, and instead of being held at Apple's new spaceship-like campus, it's on at San Jose's McEnery Convention Centre.

Peripherals manufacturer Logitech has added support for photo-editing application Adobe Lightroom Classic CC, Adobe Reader DC on Windows and Preview and Quicktime on macOS to its CRAFT keyboard which was launched last month.

In 2018, even a company like Microsoft, which once described Linux as a cancer, has no problem dealing with the open source operating system. But NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, appears to have issues.

A researcher from Google's Project Zero has released proof-of-concept code to exploit a bug in Apple's iOS and macOS operating systems.

Apple's attempts to fix a bug in its macOS operating system that allowed a user to log in as root without a password appear to have turned into a comedy of errors.

A bug in Apple's macOS allows anyone to log in as root or administrator with no password after a few attempts.

Visiting a Web page that quietly uses the visitor's computing power to mine digital currencies through a script on the page in question will result in a sudden degradation of the PC's performance, a senior infosec official says.

The zero-day vulnerability in macOS's Keychain has been addressed by Apple, along with some other issues in High Sierra. But other recent versions of the operating system are still vulnerable.

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has been interviewed by many tech and other publications recently since his book, Hit Refresh, was published. Yet all have failed to ask him a single question about the biggest problem that Microsoft has caused for individual consumers and businesses alike: ransomware.

Some of the gloss has been taken off Apple's release of its High Sierra update for macOS on Monday, with ex-NSA hacker Patrick Wardle demonstrating a way to steal plaintext passwords that are stored in the Mac keychain.

Mac automation guru Sal Soghoian spent almost 20 years at Apple as product manager for automation technologies until his position was eliminated in October 2016. But he's still pushing the automation barrow.

When I first got a Mac in 2011, it was an amazing experience that made Windows seem even more broken, but after transferring data to a new Mac and several OS updates, it was time to re-install from scratch.