Author: Eric Gose

Two factor authentication scam

Apparently not everything on Twitter is useless. I heard about a two-factor authentication (2FA) attack that was targeting a user’s iCloud credentials but could probably be modified to get around other 2FA setups. A guy on twitter described the attack and here’s how it played out. He got two messages that someone was trying to […]

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Get Started with Time Machine

So you purchased a new hard drive to use as an external source for Time Machine backups in macOS. Time Machine will perform: Local snapshots as space permits Hourly backups for the past 24 hours Daily backups for the past month Weekly backups for all previous months The oldest backups are deleted when your disk […]

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