A nefarious individual could purloin your Mac and bypass your user account password in order to access your data or wipe your system clean and begin using it as their own. It's possible to reset a ...

Forgot your Mac password? Learn how to reset it safely without losing data. Follow our step-by-step guide to regain access to ...

Password Utility fixes the FileVault reboot headache. It keeps remote Macs online and lets users use Touch ID for sudo. A ...

If you have a modern Mac, there’s almost no reason not to use FileVault, the all-disk encryption that’s built in to OS X. It doesn’t slow the computer down, it keeps your data safe and – if the ...

Remote Macs restarting and becoming uncontrollable, forced password entry instead of Touch ID, and more: A new tool is intended to help with this.

A debugging error that left some users' passwords stored in plain text in OS X 10.7.3 has been closed in OS X 10.7.4. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years ...

The full-disk encryption system called FileVault, introduced way back in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, keeps the data on your drive encrypted at rest. If your Mac is shut down, a malefactor can’t get at your ...