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Received an email saying someone has hacked my email account
Fake. Delete It and Move On
I got a similar email last week and it is fake. All the details you mentioned are identical to the email I received. In my case, I use 2-factor authentication for my Gmail ...
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How can I trick programs to believe that a recorded video is what is captured from my MacBook Pro camera in realtime?
I would suggest installing OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) from this web site:
https://obsproject.com/
It allows you to create content in a variety of ways, including green screens, etc. In your case ...
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Someone in China tried to log into my AppleID account. What should I do?
Apple recommends you select Don't Allow since that will block this attempt.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201303
The bottom of the page linked above has steps to take (like change your password) ...
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How do I prevent Remote Access to my Mac?
I would be surprised if this was an expert attack. I suspect you've been socially engineered into giving someone Remote Access. Getting past your router's firewall is not trivial & can best be ...
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Received an email saying someone has hacked my email account
Yes, it is a scam. There are two clever things that it does to make itself appear real (at least, more real than most scams), but those can be relatively easily debunked.
Firstly, it uses your own e-...
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Accessing my school admin's username & password to un-install the securly certificate on MacBook Air
Basically you can't overcome the restrictions set by Securly (or any other such tool). You should approach the school administration if
you are blocked from doing work mandated by the school
this is ...
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Accessing my school admin's username & password to un-install the securly certificate on MacBook Air
I want to add this in here as a word of caution.
As someone who has written acceptable use policies for educational establishments, there are "boiler plate" provisions (meaning pretty ...
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Mysteriously, a rectangle has appeared in the middle of the screen. How to get rid of it?
A floating black rectangle appeared on my Mac screen after upgrade to High Sierra operating system. It is due to an Accessibility option and can be removed as follows:
System Preferences > ...
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iPad 2 can't update past iOS 9.3.5
This device can't update to iOS 10.
From Apple Support (see System Requirements at bottom):
System Requirements
iPhone 5 or newer
iPad 4th generation or newer
iPad mini 2 or newer
iPod touch (6th ...
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How to prevent sleep while a Time Machine backup is in progress?
One solution to perform backups that may take longer than the default sleep time, that does not require preventing your Mac from sleeping, is using Power Nap which allows your backup to be performed ...
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Is my mac being hacked by a user called Guatoan? And how can I remove this user?
It’s not clear what user ID you are running - so to rule that out - what does this command show?
id
Next, you’ll want to inventory your backups to know if you can erase everything and or need to ...
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Apple ID password compromised - 2FA rescued - What next?
You can ask for account data on https://privacy.apple.com and see if there is any active login. I don't remember if successful are counted only, or all.
Uncheck all irrelevant boxes and you'll soon ...
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How can I know if my macbook is hacked?
No. You are not hacked.
Hackers do not operate in this manner. There's this common misconception about hackers being in the dark recesses of their parents basement consuming copious amounts of Red ...
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How vulnerable is 10.6 Snow Leopard to hacking?
Yes, there's a variety of exploits available. Though there's no one complete list, there's certainly a variety (see this one), including Shellshock, a remote exploit in Bash, and SeaPea, a root ...
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Has my iPhone security been compromised?
No, that doesn't sound like a security problem. As far as I know, there's never been a compromise of an iPhone as recent as the 6S whose iOS version is kept up-to-date. It's more likely to be a ...
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How can I trick programs to believe that a recorded video is what is captured from my MacBook Pro camera in realtime?
Not a direct answer, since I don't know GoogleMeet, but if you're using Zoom or WebEx, just record yourself through your webcam then use that video as your virtual background. Just be sure to make the ...
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Does Apple provide notifications if device is hacked
No, any scary popup about viruses on any computer can safely be ignored. An actual message from an actual virus scanner (which doesn’t exist on iOS anyway) will be more measured.
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OSX High Sierra - Files and Folders show as empty/invisible in Finder, but are still there
There has been a slight change in the command for High Sierra - It uses 'YES' instead of 'true'!
High Sierra:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
Before:
defaults write com.apple....
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How to hack into a deceased person's Mac that is still running?
This is the same as any other time you need to reset an admin account or password.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202860
Run my Mac command “chsh -s /usr/local/bin/false” and can't log in to ...
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Mysteriously, a rectangle has appeared in the middle of the screen. How to get rid of it?
I landed here looking for an answer and I ended up finding one myself.
I had the same problem. I just used Command + Option + Escape to launch Force Quit, selected Finder and clicked on Relaunch.
The ...
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Received an email saying someone has hacked my email account
There are only 2 things you need to do.
1. Change your password. *
Most of the email addresses that are receiving these, are from leaked databases that may have contained your actual password. They ...
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How do you hack an administrator's account without being caught?
The phrasing of your question makes this sound like a joke.
In all seriousness, hacking is a criminal offence most places. I would not recommending doing that at all.
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I don’t know if I am being hacked
What you have described are not the symptoms of a hack. It sounds like something is broken on your keyboard, and something was dropped something on it. You will need to get the keyboard physically ...
grg♦
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How to prevent sleep while a Time Machine backup is in progress?
This will keep Mac awake for two days:
turn it into a script and make sure to chmod +x stayup.sh or whatever the name of the script is.
#! /bin/sh
let TIME=$(expr 24*60*60*2); # 2 days in seconds
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How long would it take to crack AES-128 knowing a 12 character length password?
Dont comment "never" or "6 billion year" Think outside of the box with
advancing technology in years to come.
200 years from now, it will be possible to crack in 4 minutes.
Is ...
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What is /Volumes/firmwaresyncd?
The firmwaresyncd system is Apple designed and expected to run at all normal boots. Perhaps the system didn't unmount it once the check was complete.
If you restart your Mac, I've not seen it stay ...
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How can I check if my iCloud email address or Apple ID has been compromised?
There’s no 100% certain way to be sure that an Apple ID and/or iCloud email address has not been compromised.
However, you can use an online service such as the Have I been pwned? site to conduct a ...
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OSX High Sierra - Files and Folders show as empty/invisible in Finder, but are still there
It is a truly annoying bug that will come up again and again. Restart the finder fixes it, but it is past my ability to understand how said bug made its way to released software.
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OSX High Sierra - Files and Folders show as empty/invisible in Finder, but are still there
You may need to display all files and folders. To do so go to terminal and type:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
Then relaunch the Finder.
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