An English bank, once a highly respected establishment, one you could trust and entrust with personal data, common sense and good practices; sadly this is no longer the case. With the fast moving technological era that we’re now living in, it amazes me how the mighty have fallen. Whilst reporting of data breaches from large, international companies are all too common these days (Sony, Yahoo, Ashley Madison etc.), it’s hard to believe that simple bad practices are not only still implemented, but the reporting of such practices ignored.

Each year Apple brings new features to OS X. Features that aim to secure the system. Features that bring about discussions that suggest OS X is becoming a ‘Walled Garden’ like IOS and question “Why is apple making OS X more like IOS?”. So, we now have Gatekeeper, Sandboxing and System Integrity Protection (aka rootless). There’s no question that Apple takes security seriously, though I do sometimes wonder about some of the solutions they provide, such as SIP, which has made developer lives so difficult that some have abandoned development, whilst others use more nefarious methods: