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 ...

Using a login password on your Mac is a simple way of ensuring your macOS user account stays private, and using FileVault to encrypt your startup disk means only users who can log in to your Mac can ...

We continue coverage of an issue where Mac OS X fails to prompt the user for a password when Energy Saver is set to lock the system during sleep or while a screensaver is active, effectively ...

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 ...

I ran across an issue yesterday in trying to support a Macbook Pro at work. We wanted to reformat the Macbook to a clean system install, but we had no system disk for the computer (it was lost in the ...