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OS X not saving passwords?

By Mr.Rcollins ⋅ April 8, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

About a month ago I noticed that passwords weren’t being saved in apps in OS X like Safari, Omniweb, etc. I didn’t bother trying to figure out the problem, until today when I would go to a site in Safari and it would ask to save the password. I said yes everytime, but it still [...]

Beware of that Firewire port!

By Mr.Rcollins ⋅ March 6, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

There is a new technique that allows an attacker to unlock a Windows machine or login without a password. This vulnerability also affects OS X. Right now the hack currently requires a Linux laptop, but it could conceivably make its way to modified iPods.
To protect yourself you’ll need to disable Firewire in your PC BIOS, [...]

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