A bug in OS X 10.7.3 exposes legacy FileVault users, but there are some workarounds to prevent this from happening. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...

Alternately, local FileVault users can be protected somewhat from external hacks by using FileVault2, which encrypts the entire boot volume instead of just individual home directories.

This security flaw, apparantly created when Apple left debugging code in the 10.7.3 update, is only triggered with Lion systems in which legacy support for the original FileVault is retained and ...

With the original FileVault, a Mac encrypted a user’s home directory and mounted it as a disk image, more or less. When OS X Lion 10.7.4 appeared, it offered FileVault 2, ...

Quick question regarding Lions new FileVault. Let say you have multiple user accounts on the machine, one of which has a very poor password. Does this compromise the whole system? i.e. if someone ...

As you may have seen over the weekend, someone has discovered a security hole in FileVault, which arose with the OS X Lion security update, version 10.7.3, back in February: FileVault encryption ...

Apple has two versions of FileVault. The first version allowed a user to encrypt the contents of the home folder using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with 128-bit keys.

The vulnerability affects FileVault users who upgraded from Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6) to Lion 10.7.3, but did not migrate to FileVault 2, the full-disk encryption software that came with Lion.

If you’re an Apple fan running macOS on your MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac or Mac Pro, you’re probably going to want to apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Researchers have ...

Apple has two versions of FileVault. The first version allowed a user to encrypt the contents of the home folder using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with 128-bit keys.