You’ve undoubtedly noticed that you’re not routinely nagged for a password when you use your Mac’s email client, nor do you have to enter passwords for many of ...

In this installation of Getting to know your Mac, the MacFixIt editors will be taking a look at the Keychain Access utility. Keychain Access allows you to manage your passwords for everything from Web ...

If you’ve ever encountered a dialog box that, upon asking for a password, offers to store it, you’ve had a brush with OS X’s keychain. And perhaps you think that’s all it’s good for—storing your web, ...

Users continue to experience issues related to their Keychain passwords when using services like Apple's MobileMe or the Mail application. While issues with MobileMe can be affected by many things, ...

On Tuesday, Ars chronicled an OS X technique that’s being actively used by an underhanded piece of adware to access people’s Mac keychain without permission. Now there’s evidence the underlying ...

I will start this out by reminding everyone that you should be using a password manager to store and protect all of your passwords. We've reached a point where password managers should be considered ...

Following this week's LinkedIn password disaster, Mac users are naturally worried about their passwords and not just for their LinkedIn accounts. What if you used a password in another place? It could ...

If you store your user name and password details via the Keychain in OS X, you know that Keychain makes it a lot easier to do so. You can store login details for all those websites you visit, ...

Rather than using the Keychain Access.app GUI tool, I have been using the "security" command. Its located in /usr/bin.<BR><BR>I can import certs using the command line tool, but I cant seem to be able ...

A new version of the long-running Genieo adware has brought with it a new technique for accessing the OS X Keychain without user intervention, a security gray area that could be used by other ...