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Month: August 2025

How To Save a Kernel Panic Report

Posted on August 6, 2025July 16, 2025 by Tim Hannon in macOS (formerly OS X), Software

Is your Mac abruptly restarting due to a kernel panic? A kernel panic is a very particular type of freeze or crash. The core of the Mac operating system (macOS) is called the kernel. When it gets confused it panics and the whole computer stops working. The computer then automatically restarts after a few seconds.  … Read more

Never Paste Unknown Text into Terminal!

Posted on August 3, 2025July 8, 2025 by Tim Hannon in Macintosh, Security/Privacy

Here’s a new scam to watch for. A client reported running across a suspicious website masquerading as a human verification test. Instead of asking him to click pictures or solve a math equation, this one asked him to copy some text from the page and paste it into Terminal. The text was actually an encoded […]

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