Mike Brogan Consulting

What Is Advanced Data Protection for iCloud? Should You Enable It?

What Is Advanced Data Protection for iCloud? Should You Enable It? - Mike Brogan Consulting In early December, Apple made a surprise announcement: Advanced Data Protection for iCloud. It’s not as though iCloud’s standard data protection is problematic, but it hinges on one architectural decision that makes some iCloud data theoretically vulnerable: Apple holds the encryption keys neces...

Protect Your Hidden and Recently Deleted Albums in Photos

Protect Your Hidden and Recently Deleted Albums in Photos - Mike Brogan Consulting Photos has long provided a hidden album you could use to hold images you wanted to keep a little more private. Until this year, however, it was security through obscurity: anyone who knew to reveal the album in Settings > Photos on an iPhone or iPad or by choosing View > Show Hidden Album on…Conti...

LastPass Security Breach: Here’s What to Do

LastPass Security Breach: Here’s What to Do - Mike Brogan Consulting Password management company LastPass has announced that it suffered a security breach in which attackers stole both encrypted customer account data (which is bad) and customer vaults containing encrypted usernames and passwords (which is much, much worse). On the positive side, the data of users who...