Study Recommends Mac VPN Amongst Five Critical Security Measures for Apple Users
Having covered Apple's Mac OS X and iOS series for years, VPNRanks was able to assimilate and analyze hundreds of users' reviews to identify measures that provide practical data protection. The study evaluates vulnerabilities in Mac OS that have been recorded to date, and recommends five basic measures that have been proven to defend against online threats to data integrity and online privacy.
singapore, Singapore, November 12, 2015 (Newswire.com) - A recent study, conducted by the Research & Development team at VPNRanks.com, has issued a list of 5 elementary precautionary measures that are guaranteed to provide comprehensive protection against present and impending security weaknesses in the Mac OS. The recommendations include the adoption of uncomplicated practices, such as the use of Mac VPN and the disabling of certain features.
The study incorporates a comprehensive evaluation of former Mac operating systems, and the security measures that have effectively trounced them in the past. The study concludes that the collective assurance of the following five perimeters is mandatory for Mac users if impenetrable security is to be ensured:
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1. Ensure data security, through uninterrupted data traffic encryption and tunneling, via Mac VPN
2. Abandon password assistants and use unique passwords on all user accounts to lessen potential for collateral damage
3. Changing passwords weekly helps prevent large-scale targeted attacks
4. Keeping anti-virus definitions and your firewall updated to cover cracks in your Mac’s network security
5. Connect with secure VPN servers to protect against undetectable internet surveillance and meta-data collection threats
VPNRanks launched the comprehensive study after the recent unveiling of security weaknesses in the latest edition of Apple's Mac OS X. Apple's 12th Mac release, known as the OSX El Capitan, comes built-in with two security weaknesses that (rather ironically) come embedded inside the new operating system's security architecture. Former NSA staffer, Patrick Wardle, revealed how hackers can bypass Apple's Gatekeeper technology using moderately advanced coding techniques, during the VB2015 Conference in September.
Experts at VPNRanks have been observing a notable impact, of the seemingly never-ending unveiling of faults in Apple’s Mac OS, in the form of increasing searches for Mac VPN services.
The importance of services such as Mac VPN and the aforementioned security measures is further intensified by the fact that Apple has a penchant for taking months to address exposed security vulnerabilities.
A classic example of the aforementioned delayed response time was recently witnessed in the case of the security flaws in Apple's Keychain (a storage vault for passwords) discovered by the researchers from Indiana University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, in June this year. Apple asked for six months to rectify the defect, after which the vulnerability remained unresolved - across both Mac and iOS platforms.
Internet privacy advocates and Information Security experts have been playing cat and mouse with security and privacy vulnerabilities in Mac OS for a long time. Mac and iOS users, hounded by increasing cybercrime and unwarranted surveillance, are recommended to use these simple yet effective techniques to ensure complete data security and online freedom.
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