Monthly Archives: September 2022

Apple just gave its security software a major boost without you knowing

Apple has been quietly souping up its malware protection all this time, covertly introducing a new anti-malware tool called “XProtect Remediator”. Mac blogger Howard Oakley, who first unearthered the feature, noted how macOS malware protection “has changed more than it did over the previous seven years” over the last six months. “It has now gone…

Meta axes yet another flagging Facebook feature in apparent cost-cutting move

Add another victim to Meta’s hit list as the company recently announced it’s shutting down Facebook Neighborhoods on October 1. The shut down notice was first shared by social media consultant Matt Navarra on Twitter who posted a screenshot of a Meta project manager going by the mononym Tohm making the announcement on a Facebook…

Bill Barr says Justice Department likely had ‘pretty good evidence’ before executing search warrant at Mar-a-Lago

Former Attorney General Bill Barr and former President Donald Trump Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Justice Department likely has “pretty good evidence” against Trump, Bill Barr said Friday. Barr, speaking to Fox News, pushed back on criticism that the Mar-a-Lago raid was “unprecedented.” It’s “unprecedented” to store classified information at a country club, he said. The…

IMPACT app review: Choose from 13 socially responsible investing categories

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Russia’s Gazprom will keep the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline shut down after finding a leak, heightening Europe’s energy crisis

Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller stands next to Russian President Vladimir Putin. AFP/Getty Images Gazprom said late Friday its Nord Stream 1 pipeline would remain shut down indefinitely.  The state-run energy firm said it found leaks during a maintenance check.  Germany’s economy minister warned that Russia would likely keep the pipeline closed.  Russia’s state-run energy giant…

Inside the wild life of the late former fugitive and eccentric cybersecurity legend John McAfee, who claimed to have 47 children and a yacht from the Wolf of Wall Street

Cyrus McCrimmon/The Denver Post via Getty Images John McAfee is as much a cybersecurity legend as he is a now-infamous media story. He created one of the world’s most popular antivirus programs in the 1980s. But he later became embroiled in a world of drugs, alcohol, and crime. John McAfee was an enigma. He built…