Take Control of Securing Your Mac

Introduction

A Mac is not impregnable. Any operating system has flaws and weaknesses that can be exploited through hardware and software, locally and remotely. An attacker might break in to scoop out your personal data, erase files or entire volumes, or install spyware.

Apple never shirked their need to find these holes and plug them. But over the last decade, they have increasingly raised the level of difficulty of staging successful attacks. They not only backfill problems as they are discovered and build better replacements for vulnerable components, but they have also become better at predicting potential points of failure and erecting thick walls ahead of time.

Macs have nearly always been better than Windows at deterring remote attacks, ...