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How AI Vulnerability Detection Changes Software Security
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How AI Vulnerability Detection Changes Software Security

The latest generation of AI models has fundamentally changed how quickly security vulnerabilities can be found in software, for both defenders and attackers. Understanding what’s happening helps explain why we keep emphasizing the importance of keeping your devices updated. In April 2026, AI company Anthropic announced Mythos Preview, an AI model with unprecedented capabilities for finding security flaws in software.

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June 6, 2026
Never Run AppleScripts from Untrusted Sources
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Never Run AppleScripts from Untrusted Sources

The latest scam to watch out for is fake websites that try to get you to open Script Editor directly from your browser with a pre-filled AppleScript. Don’t do this! Security researchers at Jamf Threat Labs documented an attack where a convincing Apple-themed page claiming to help “reclaim disk space” prompted users to allow Script Editor to open, then used

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May 2, 2026
Make Sure Your Home Network Router Is Secure
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Make Sure Your Home Network Router Is Secure

Securing your home network might seem uninteresting or unimportant—after all, who would bother to target you? The answer is that criminal hackers are interested in your router for a range of disturbing purposes, including attacks on your employer if you connect to a corporate network. It’s time to get serious about home network security, a fact underscored by recent news

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May 2, 2026
macOS 26.4 Warns Against Terminal-Based Malware Attacks
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macOS 26.4 Warns Against Terminal-Based Malware Attacks

We’ve warned before about scams that trick users into pasting malicious commands into Terminal. Attackers create fake CAPTCHA pages—often resembling Cloudflare’s “are you a human” tests—that instruct visitors to open Terminal, paste a command, and press Return. Because the user executes the command themselves, macOS’s security protections are bypassed. Malwarebytes recently documented a macOS infostealer called Infiniti Stealer that spreads

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April 4, 2026

Unifi Cameras with Synology Surveillance Station

This is a guest post- thanks to Russell Gunn from Datalinq Solutions for working out this info and agreeing to have it hosted here. Please contact Russell here via email or by phone on 0863141120 if you want him to do this work for you- or if Western Australia is a bit far, buy him a beer one day- I

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January 27, 2020

Backup Cisco CUCM & CUC To Raspberry Pi

Working with a client recently we had huge trouble backup up a Cisco phone system to a local machine for disaster recovery. Cisco provide an interface to use SFTP, so I offered to provide a Raspberry Pi for the backups- surely it couldn’t be that hard? Well, yes and no… So I wrote an SD card with the operating system,

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August 19, 2019

Protecting Insecure Resources with HAProxy

I love Screenconnect (now known as Connectwise Control) but it drives me absolutely bonkers to think that a modern app doesn’t come with basic levels of security built in. All communication between the client and server are encrypted, but your login (yep username and password) are not straight out of the box. They provide a script which will install an

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May 28, 2019

Mac VPN Setup Guide

How to set up a VPN on Mac OS Firstly, you’ll need these credentials to be able to connect Username (also known as ‘Account Name’) Password Shared Secret (this is just another password) Server Address (will be either a URL or an IP address) Already set up?  Modifying an existing VPN (this bit not done yet) Setting up a new

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January 29, 2019

Mail on Mac OS Server v10.13.4

I’ve been trying to get a new client on board and as part of that I’ve made a list of things that need to get fixed for that business to operate reliably. One of the dangerous things they are doing is running Mail Server on a Mac. This is about to become an unsupported config, so there is some urgency

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April 13, 2018

Phishing Grows Up?

This morning I got an email ostensibly from American Express, asking me to set up a ‘SafeKey’ to add an extra level of protection to my online purchases.   It looks legit. One of the first things I do is hover my mouse pointer over the supplied link- often the link will say it goes to Amex but the tooltip

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November 18, 2016