Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Most breaches don’t start with malware or zero-day exploits. They start with a login.  An attacker gets hold of a password, maybe through phishing, reuse, or a leaked credential dump. They test it ...

The Secure Shell — SSH — allows you to send secure, encrypted, communications between computers that is nearly impossible to crack. Here's how to use it in macOS. Before personal computers, people ...

When connecting to a system remotely using SSH (Secure Shell), usually you provide the SSH command string to log in to the system and then execute commands on the remote system using the current SSH ...

Hello.. Here's a new one.. I try to log into a remote computer using SSH, it looks to connect fine, but I never get a prompt. Using verbose mode, it get all the lines showing the connection happens ...

I utilize various third-party applications to remotely access Secure Shell (SSH) and Windows Virtual Machine (VM) console access. Putty is my SSH tool of choice for remotely accessing the VMware ESXi ...

Once upon a time the thought of a firewalled, cordoned, and censored web was enough to send chills up the spine of any internet user. As the years have passed, however, our sentiment has softened. A ...

Because Linux is a deep operating system, we often use a miniscule portion of a tool’s features. I, for one, use awk primarily to isolate columns that cut can’t find, though in fact awk is a ...

Remote desktop isn’t the same as remote access. Raspberry Pi Connect makes “connect from anywhere” simple and secure—so why ...