Booting in safe mode to resolve login issues Several users with login problems (usually startup getting stuck at the login screen) after applying the Mac OS X 10.3.4 update report that starting up in ...

Periodically, readers will need to access files off old computers that they have kept stashed away for years (I still have my PowerBook 150, and will probably never get rid of it). If you are one of ...

ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. releases Elcomsoft Password Digger, a Windows tool to decrypt the content of Mac OS X keychains. The tool can decrypt the content of system and user keychains, exporting full ...

How to resent a forgotten admin password on a Macintosh OS X system. I forgot the admin password on my Macintosh OS X system. How can I crack or reset the password? Mac OS X is based on BSD Unix, so ...

A company that makes password recovery tools has released one that can snatch passwords from a locked or sleeping Macintosh running Mac OS X Lion by plugging another computer into the Mac’s FireWire ...

Not knowing your Mac’s password is like locking yourself out of the house; it’s inconvenient (at best) and always happens at the worst possible time. In our efforts to shield information from others ...

You’re constantly hearing about how you need to make sure to use a secure password, but what are you supposed to do if a hacker can just change your password ...

If you regularly read Macworld’s articles about computer security, you know the importance of a good password—meaning one that’s difficult to guess or crack. My personal tool of choice for creating ...

What I find pretty funny, is that iTunes is (was? from memory anyway) built with a special flag to the kernel saying "Don't debug me!" which would disallow attempts to ptrace() or otherwise poke ...

Well, this is awkward. A security update for Mac OS X left some users' data exposed by turning on a log file which contains login passwords … in plain text. Affected users are those who "used ...