You may already have heard about this.  If not, read more below.  In Any event, get ready for some serious/critical patches in the near future. Adobe Flash has a significant number of Vulnerabilities so bottom line, if you don’t need it on your computer Don’t Install it or Uninstall it and you have one less source of stress.  Unless you are one of the fortunate (#Sarcasm) that needs it for some mission critical software you use.  In that case.  My heart felt condolences and contact us about keeping up to date.

Adobe is working on an emergency patch for its Flash Player after attackers are reportedly exploiting a critical flaw.

Source: Adobe to issue emergency patch for Flash vulnerability

New to Terminal?  Here are some useful shortcuts courtesy of TechRepublic. These days, more and more developers are moving to OS X. Here are 20 shortcuts to help you get work done in Terminal on your Mac. Source: 20 Terminal shortcuts developers need to know

This is why we can’t have nice things.  lol

Keychains raided, sandboxes busted, passwords p0wned, but Apple silent for six months

Source: Apple CORED: Boffins reveal password-killer 0-days for iOS and OS X • The Register

Want some good tips for OS X Yosemite?  Check out the article below on Trusted Reviews.  You might find something interesting.

 

Best OS X Yosemite tips and tricks – Opinion – Trusted Reviews.

The vulnerability seems to only effect admin users.  By default on most Macs that is everyone.  You can create a user and remove admin rights from that user, then use it primarily.  This seems to reduce or eliminate the threat.  At least as indicated by the article below on Geek.com.  This is a good practice to have anyways, so do it now!  Not sure how?  Call us.   Read more below. Mac OS X ‘rootpipe’ security vulnerability discovered, but there’s no fix date yet | Apple | Geek.com.

An exploit in many versions of Linux, Some devices and even Mac OS X could leave you feeling Shellshocked.

It has to do with bash a command line utility that is part of many distributions of Linux and even Mac OS X which uses this same shell.  The flaw has been around for years and now people are taking notice.  Read More at NetworkWorld below. ‘Bigger than Heartbleed’ Shellshock flaw leaves OS X, Linux, more open to attack | Network World.

This is a very simple trick so that you can display the Path in the title bar on a Mac running OS X.  It’s a feature I sorely miss from Windows.  The Mac defaults to showing you just the folder you’re in.  Not as useful as it could be.      Read the tim on OSXDaily by clicking below.

defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES via Show Full Directory Path in Mac OS X Finder Window Title Bars.