MacBook Air :: Hacked - How To Do A Complete SSD Wipe
Aug 20, 2014
Yesterday my wife got conned by a scammer who logged into her 2012 Air and started hacking away. We have no idea how much data he got or how much spyware he planted. She shut down the machine shortly after he got into it, but now we're in limbo. I want to totally wipe the SSD (I've been strongly advised to do so) and restore it from a backup drive (we use Super Duper for backup, as well as Crash Plan). Any special tricks to doing a total wipe of the data?
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Jun 29, 2012
Since upgrading to Lion my MacBook Pro (Mid 2009) it keeps freezing and it takes much longer to boot compared to Snow Lepoard.I upgraded it from 2GB to 4GB hoping it would run smoother but it was so hot in operation (I literally couldn't hold it after just a few minutes) I had to take it back to 2GB. I also notice that all my apps return on logon even though I have specificed not to re-open apps.I have verified and repaired the disk using Disk Utility and also ran a supposed recovery of Lion but it took 1hr (including Lion download) however when I logged back on it was the same software and data etc; is it possible to do a complete data wipe and install Lion? It has updated to the latest software however I'm starting to get very frustrated; just earlier the whole thing froze and I had to force it to power off.
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), MacBook Pro (Mid 2009)
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Dec 15, 2008
When using the Disk Utility free space wipe to wipe sensitive data (using the 7 times option), I thought that would be sufficient.
I was wondering though, does the free space wipe option also wipe the slack files on the hard drive? Is this even an issue for a Mac? (I know on Windows the slack file needs to be wiped for a completely secure erase, right?)
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Apr 23, 2012
can my macbook be hacked ?
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MacBook
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Mar 12, 2012
have i been hacked/phished? i clicked on a link in an email from an old friend and apparently, his email was hacked into because the link was to some spam website offering exorbitant amounts of money off the internet. every time i tried to close the window, a drop down menu would appear asking me if i wanted to leave the page. the page didn't let me close it until i clicked "yes". is my computer safe? perhaps a dumb move, but i thought the link was safe because i recognized other friends' email addresses it was sent to and the email came from a friend ! do i need to worry about a key logger or any of my accounts being compromised? maybe i'm not doing the right kind of searches but i can't seem to find anything on the internet about macs and security. is there some sort of anti-virus or anti-malware software, etc, for macs?
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MacBook
Pro
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Apr 5, 2012
Do I need to worry about some "spyware" or something on my computer? I never follow spam links but obviously did something in the last 24 hours. How do I know if I have a virus on my Mac?
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 8, 2012
I know you can change admin passwords by just pressing the power button and command s... my brother always changes my password and I physically have to hide my computer so he won't hack it. I know people use firevault to protect files but I don't need to do that. Are there any settings I can change or software I can install to prevent hacking?
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Jun 26, 2012
How do I check my Mac to see if it's been hacked? I received a couple of emails from what I though was a friend and opened one.
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MacBook Pro
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Jun 9, 2012
I've been getting several email delivery failure notifications recently. I don't recognize the email addresses quoted. Is it possible that someone has hacked into my mail account? Is someone using my server identity?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
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Mar 28, 2008
San Francisco - It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned.He took the first of three laptop computers -- and a $10,000 cash prize -- Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference's PWN 2 OWN hacking contest.Show organizers offered a Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810, and the MacBook as prizes, saying that they could be won by anybody at the show who could find a way to hack into each of them and read the contents of a file on the system using a previously undisclosed "0day" attack.
Nobody was able to hack into the systems on the first day of the contest when contestants were only allowed to attack the computers over the network, but on Thursday, the rules were relaxed so that attackers could direct contest organizers using the computers to do things like visit Web sites or open e-mail messages.Miller, best known as one of the researchers who first hacked Apple's iPhone last year, didn't take much time. Within 2 minutes, he directed the contest's organizers to visit a Web site that contained his exploit code, which then allowed him to seize control of the computer, as about 20 onlookers cheered him on.
He was the first contestant to attempt an attack on any of the systems.Miller was quickly given a nondisclosure agreement to sign, and he's not allowed to discuss particulars of his bug until the contest's sponsor, TippingPoint, can notify the vendor.Contest rules state that Miller could only take advantage of software that was preinstalled on the Mac, so the flaw he exploited must have been accessible by, or possibly inside, Apple's Safari browser.Last year's contest winner, Dino Dai Zovi, exploited a vulnerability in QuickTime to take home the prize.Dai Zovi, who congratulated Miller after his hack, didn't participate in this year's contest, saying it was time for someone else to win.
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Nov 24, 2009
I just woke up a few minutes age. The Mac was switched off. When I came back into the room it was on. I am the only person in the house. And this is at least the third time it has happened in the last few weeks AT THE SAME TIME IN THE MORNING. Is somebody hacked into my computer?
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Apr 5, 2010
I only use a mac, and while i dont use the same password everywhere, i had used some of them in more than one place. So tonight my gmail was accessed, recently my facebook, and before that i had gotten someone using my debit card fraudulently. what are my options? i downloaded iantivirus and it found one infection so far on my imac. im on my mbp at the moment. i also cleared and reset safari. should i be reformatting to be sure?
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Aug 31, 2010
My Mac and modem had easy passwords and I noticed someone connected to me in the attached servers list. At one point my wifes PC announced that the modem had no password. I checked my firewall that was not on and allowıng all connections. Need help as I do banking online etc and did turn on Console logs but to be honest I dont understand it all and only turned it on when I thought I had a problem.
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Sep 6, 2010
I can't find much information on this online, but I have heard of routers being hijacked and rerouting websites, having DNS reroute problems etc. Here are a few examples of things happening. Sometimes when I go to a message board at [URL], it loads [URL:..] Today Twitter was some random blogspot blog Ebay SSL Certificate showing up as invalid PayPal SSL Certificate showing up as invalid [URL] not loading [URL] (I think....it was some shopping site) loaded [URL] Sometimes sites just don't load, when there are no issues with the site, it'll just get a white page with an error message.There have been other odd happenings. This is all pretty weird stuff that has happened over the past few months. I have kind of just brushed it off. I never enter personal info or anything so HOPEFULLY nothing important has been taken. Now - it might be your first instint to assume that my computer might be hacked/hijacked/virus but it's NOT my computer. Like 100% not my computer. We have 3 macs here, 2 iPhones and an iPad. Whenever I am having these issues it is on ALL devices. All on wireless so this is definitely coming from the router. I have tried searching for help with this through google and can't seem to find any info. I see mention of what people were saying is a DNS hacked router, but no way to repair or even anyone discussing it so I really don't know where to turn.
Maybe someone here can point me in the right direction? What's also strange is these are always temporary...for example, I noticed it tonight when I went to do a PayPal refund, and got that SSL error so I left the site about a half hour ago. Just went again to get a screen shot to include with this post and its back to normal and SSL verified. Can anyone offer any input on this? I'm tempted to just go buy a new router...unfortunate thing is, this one isnt old. I bought this last fall and have noticed the weird problems since shortly after that. It's a Linksys WRT160Nv3 Firmware Version: v3.0.02
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Apr 9, 2009
on Monday, I received 2 email receipts from iTunes. Both were for a $50 iTunes gift card. I checked my bank account, and sure enough, I had 2 $50 drafts from my account.
I was out of town when it happened, but when I got home, I signed onto iTunes and checked my purchases...there they were. The thing is, no one was at home when it happened and my password is needed whenever I purchase anything. I have no idea how it happened!
I changed my password and emailed iTunes support. I chatted with them on Tuesday when they opened and they really didn't do anything but told me to call my credit card company. I called my bank and they sent me some fraud stuff so I can get my money back.
I did go back and check the cards and there's an email address on one of them...I guess to where the person was sending the cards to. Should I contact them? Apple finally sent me an email telling me to pretty much leave everything alone in case the police need to do an investigation.
I still don't know how this can happen. I'm very careful with what I do with my passwords.
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Mar 19, 2012
About 2 weeks ago, I was contacted by Discover that my account had apparently been breached. Someone had charged over $100.00 worth of stuff to iTunes.
I went into itunes, changed my password, changed to Mastercard, and was able to purchase things for a couple of days. Now I get the message that my id has been disabled.Â
I use some of my apps in my work, and I can't update them. I can't buy music. I can't do ANYTHING. I am disabled and try to do some work from home. I need these apps working. Â
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iTunes, iOS 5.1
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Mar 22, 2012
I got a strange ad in my email, with a download that does not seem to work in applications. Could be a virus? Spying?
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iWeb '08, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 19, 2012
my twitter account has been hacked, is it possible that someone has hacked my laptop as well (Macbook pro with an Apple care protection plan )?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Nov 5, 2008
I just noticed that the fonts of some of the italicized words in a few pdf documents have been changed. This just happened suddenly for no reason. Does that mean my Mac has been hacked or Apple has changed something on the previewer (version 4.1, 469.2.2) which came with Leopard? I also noticed that the wireless network connection has been very slow for the past two days.
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Dec 27, 2009
I have just become the latest victim of a Skype account hack (the usual thing - they change your password and email so you can't get back in, and then use up your SkypeOut credit), and I've lost about 10 euros of credit. What worries me more, though, is the fact that my account was hacked despite only being used on a Mac. Any ideas as to how this might have happened? I have the OS X firewall switched on, and have WPA2 security activated on my AirPort Express.I know that malware isn't usually a concern with Macs, but is it conceivable that I have something nasty running in the background? If I have, I have no idea where I might have got it from.
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Sep 3, 2014
My mac was hacked and sending spams emails. OS X 10.9. Network Utilities port scan saying ports 110, 143,994,995 are open ( email services). lsof does not show those ports. netstat does not show those ports neither. I did not install any email server on my Mac.Â
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Mar 30, 2009
Like whenever I wipe down my keyboard on my MacBook. I always think how convinient that would be to have a keyboard lock because I don't feel like shutting down to do a wipe down.
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Mar 25, 2012
My MBP has been acting strangly for more than two months now. It started with taking a couple minutes to locate the WiFi, then just general slowness, and now is so troublesome that I want to just wipe it completely to factory fresh and try again. I nearly chucked it out a wondow today, the first time a Mac has made me feel like I was using a PC.I originally posted quite awhile ago (url...) although 300+ reads got not a single reply. So I don't know whether I am even posting this in the right area.is this more likely a Lion problem? Or something else? I don't know and am tired of being stressed. Had an important paper to write today and probably should have used my iPhone rather than trying to convince my MBP to work.
I have repaired the permissions, zapped the PRAM, re-installed Lion, re-RE-installed Lion, and tried just living in Safe Boot Mode. I just want my Mac to work, as it always has in the past. So now, let's just start fresh and see what happens. Except guess what? I can't find any specific instructions as to how to even do THAT.So I am begging someone to give me simple instructions to erase my hard drive so I can just start over.
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Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Aug 29, 2010
So I buy a MacBook Pro 13 (super local deal) and my second post here is how to sell it! (I'm thinking about selling or returing it and getting the 15.) I have not done anything but the usuall new computer stuff that you walk through up when you turn it on for the first time and downloading Open Office to try it out. What is the best way to clear any data and reset it to factory spec so I don't leave any information?
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Oct 28, 2010
I've owned my macbook air for less than 12 hours, and it's already f'd. I normally use a time-capsule to back up my old macbook. I had filevault turned on, on my old macbook (and so I guess it was also applied to the data on the time-capsule) -I turned on my new MBA and told it to take all the macbook data (including login profiles etc) off of my time capsule. I figured this would be easier than migrating components of the data over.-Now, I can't login to my profile on my new macbook air. I have the right password, but it's saying that filevault can access the data, or something. Maybe it's because it's not recognizing the new machine. -At this point, I just want to start fresh with the macbook air. I stuck that little reboot key in the usb port and re-installed the software. Unfortunately, after I did that, the old login profile (which I can't access) were still on there. I get it - I'm bad with computers. Even with the really user-friendly, idiot-proof ones.
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Feb 27, 2012
I just bought a macbook and i have no disk how do i wipe out the memory?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8), i do not have any disks
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Mar 9, 2012
I'm trying to sell my macbook pro and I need to wipe the hard drive.
Info:MacBookPro
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Mar 23, 2012
I have a white Macbook. 160GB hard drive. late 2009.I am running OS X Lion 10.7.3 I was looking at my storage statistics and it shows that i have 50gb of "other." How do I get rid or minimize this "other" data? it is taking up a 32% of my hard drive...Or, is there a way to completely erase all files and data, but still keep my OS installed?
Info:MacBook (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 31, 2012
i would like to know how i can wipe all my personalyy info from my mac
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May 20, 2012
I need to dispose of my old MacBook - what's the best way to remove all of the information on it before I put it on Kijiji? Don't want my photos/browsing history/cookies passed on to anyone..
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MacBook (13-inch Mid 2007)
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