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Worm rickrolls unsecured jailbroken iPhones via SSH

by Josh Carr (Nov 7th, 2009)

For the last few days, some jailbroken iPhone users have found their home screen background a little different than they remembered. A hacker, going by the name "ikee," created a worm that changes the home screen background on jailbroken iPhones whose owners failed to change the default password ...

Sneak Peek: 1Password 3.0 + secret beta-enabler tweak

by Brett Terpstra (Jul 31st, 2009)

As Christina mentioned a while ago, 1Password version 3 is on the horizon, and we've got some sneak peeks to show you. There are some great improvements to the core, but more immediately noticeable are the visual tweaks to the interface. The entire UI has been overhauled, and I'm impressed. Take a ...

1Password 3 beta nears, TUAW readers get a chance to participate

by Christina Warren (Jun 9th, 2009)

Update: The Agile Web Solutions guys have been nice enough to extend beta invites to another 100 TUAW readers. Those that don't make it into the first round, don't worry, the guys said they will be putting you on a waiting list and accessing that over the next couple of months, so with any luck, ...

9 things I learned from almost losing my MacBook Air

by Steven Sande (Jun 5th, 2009)

I swear, getting old is not a lot of fun. Last night, I taught a class in data security for home and small business users at our local community college. There were a lot of good questions from the community education program students, so the class ended quite late and I was still answering ...

TUAW First Look: 1Password touch 2.0 for iPhone and iPod touch

by Steven Sande (Jun 3rd, 2009)

Agile Web Solutions, developer of the 1Password secure password manager for Mac, has announced the release of 1Password touch 2.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. The app, which is available through Friday, June 5th as a free download, is much improved over the previous versions and includes new ...

Mobile Me debuts large file sharing with iDisk

by Robert Palmer (Feb 13th, 2009)

Apple yesterday announced a new addition to Mobile Me: The ability to share large files with others via iDisk. One of our readers had noticed an announcement about it way back on New Year's Day. The service works much like YouSendIt, though rather than uploading a file, you point to an existing ...

Mac 101: 7 tips for Data Privacy Day 2009

by Robert Palmer (Jan 28th, 2009)

Today is Data Privacy Day, a global initiative to highlight information security rights and practices, especially among teens, professionals, corporations, and the government. As part of the celebration, TUAW (along with our sister blog Download Squad) has seven good ideas for you about how to keep ...

Mac 101: Retrieve your Keychain passwords

by Cory Bohon (Sep 25th, 2008)

Have you forgotten a password to a website, email account, or other password? If you use Mac OS X's Keychain, chances are that your password can be easily retrieved. First off, open Keychain Access.app (located in /Applications/Utilities/). Once there, scroll through the list of keys until you ...

iPhone dev: Apple gave out my password

by Robert Palmer (Jul 9th, 2008)

Marko Karppinen, an ADC Premier member, iPhone developer, and user like the rest of us, had his personal information released by Apple to an unknown third party, simply because of this one-line email: am forget my password of mac,did you give me password on new email marko.[redacted]@yahoo.com Apple ...

1Password 2.6.5 released

by Cory Bohon (Jun 26th, 2008)

Agile Web Solutions has updated their 1Password product with support for 4 new browsers and better support for the newly released Firefox 3. 1Password now works on the following web-browsing applications: Safari 4 (Developer Preview), DEVONagent 2.3.1, latest OmniWeb, and Flock 2 beta. In addition ...

Mac OS X password recoverable from RAM?

by Cory Bohon (Mar 3rd, 2008)

In a recent post over at Ars Technica, they say that Mac OS X users could have their login passwords recovered through physically accessing the RAM. This comes after FileVault was proven to be cracked. The article notes that Mac OS X and certain applications store the user's password in memory, ...

1Password brings form-filling to the iPhone

by Nik Fletcher (Jan 30th, 2008)

Back at Macworld we saw a sneak-peek from 1Password creater Dave Teare of the (then forthcoming) iPhone form-filling, username-storing 1Password bookmarklet for iPhone (pictured above at Moscone). Today sees a new build of 1Password pushed out for beta-loving users who want to take advantage of ...

1Passwd 2.5b adds iPhone export

by Mat Lu (Oct 8th, 2007)

The browser password manager 1Passwd has just been updated to version 2.5b and adds an interesting new feature: iPhone export. You're now able to export your secure passwords and notes to the iPhone from your Mac. The clever thing is that they accomplish this without hacking the iPhone in any way. ...

Secure your Mac: Eikon biometric security

by Mat Lu (Sep 25th, 2007)

TUAW has lately been trying to help you Secure Your Mac, and while a few options have been available, biometric security is one area in which the Mac has seemed to lag behind the Windows side. Now UPEK has released a preview of the Mac version of their Eikon Digital Privacy Manager. The software ...

TUAW Podcast #22: 1Passwd

by David Chartier (Mar 15th, 2007)

This week's podcast covers 1Passwd, the password manager and autofill tool that brings some really unique features and multi-browser support for the Keychain to the table. For just under 8 minutes I demonstrate some of the killer features of this app that go above and beyond the norm, and the ...