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USEFUL INFORMATION FOR PEOPLE WHO USE APPLE LAPTOPS OT APPLE PRODUCTS
07:20 Jul 31 2018 Times Read: 1,143
I DIDNT WRTITE THIS THIS CAME FROM APPLE'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE WHICH
https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204145
If you think your Apple ID has been compromised
Are you concerned that an unauthorized person might have access to your Apple ID? These steps can help you find out and regain control of your account.
Because you use your Apple ID for so many Apple products and services, you should make sure that your Apple ID is as secure as possible. You should be the only person who knows your password and can sign in with your Apple ID. If someone you don’t know or don’t trust can sign in with your Apple ID, your account is not secure.
Here are some reasons why the Apple ID that you're using might not be secure:
Someone else created an Apple ID on your behalf, or you’re using an Apple ID that was already signed in when you received your device.
You’re sharing an Apple ID with family or friends. Your Apple ID is your personal account. If you want to share purchases with a family member, use Family Sharing. With Family Sharing, you can share a calendar, photos, reminders, and more without sharing your Apple ID.
You don’t recognize the Apple ID that is signed in on your device.
You shared your password with someone else intentionally or unintentionally. For example, someone else selected your password for you, you told someone your password, or you might have entered your password on a "phishing" site.
You don't have control of the email address or phone number associated with your Apple ID.
Your password is weak or has been compromised.
If any of the above are true, you should use these steps to reset your password as soon as possible and review your account information.
How do I know if my Apple ID was compromised?
Your Apple ID might be compromised if you receive an account notification from Apple for a change you didn't make, or if you notice account details or changes you don’t recognize. For example:
You receive an email or notification that your Apple ID was used to sign in to a device you don't recognize or did not sign in to recently (for example, "Your Apple ID was used to sign in to iCloud on a Windows PC").
You receive a confirmation email from Apple that your Apple ID password was changed or your account information was updated, but you don’t remember making any changes.
Your device was locked or placed in Lost Mode by someone other than you.
You see messages you didn't send, or items you didn’t delete.
You see charges or notices for purchases that you didn't make. Use these steps if you see an unfamiliar iTunes Store or App Store charge on your credit or debit card statement.
Your password no longer works, or it might have been changed or locked.
You don't recognize some or all of your account details.
If you received an email that you're not sure is valid or you think might be a fraudulent "phishing" email, here are some tips that can help you determine its legitimacy.
How can I gain control of my Apple ID?
If you think your Apple ID was compromised, use these steps to gain control of it and review your account information:
Sign in to your Apple ID account page. If you can't sign in or you receive a message that the account is locked when you try to sign in, try to reset or unlock your account. If you still can't sign in, contact Apple Support.
Change your Apple ID password and choose a strong password.
Review all the personal and security information in your account. Update any information that isn't correct or that you don’t recognize, including:
Your name.
Your primary Apple ID email address.* If you need to change your email address, update the features and services that you use with Apple ID, so that each one is using your updated Apple ID.
All alternate email addresses, rescue email addresses, and phone numbers.
Security questions and answers. If you think they might be easy to guess, you should change your security questions.
The devices that are associated with your Apple ID, if you've already set up two-factor authentication.
Check with your email address* provider to make sure that you control every email address associated with your Apple ID. If you don't control the email addresses associated with the Apple ID, you should change the password for the email address or use a different email address.
Set up two-factor authentication for your Apple ID. This additional security feature is designed to prevent anyone from accessing your account, even if they know your password.
If you completed the steps above and think your account might still be compromised, contact Apple Support.
Make sure you know which Apple ID is signed in to your device.
If you're signed in on your device with an Apple ID that you don't recognize, use these steps to sign out, then back in with a different Apple ID. To make sure that you're signed in to Apple IDs that only you control or trust, you can check the following settings on each of your devices:
iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:
Settings > [your name] (On iOS 10.2 or earlier, tap Settings > iCloud instead)
Settings > [your name] > iTunes & App Store (On iOS 10.2 or earlier, tap Settings > iTunes & App Store instead)
Settings > Messages > Send & Receive
Settings > FaceTime
Mac:
System Preferences > iCloud
System Preferences > Internet Accounts
Messages > Preferences > Accounts
Facetime > Preferences > Settings
Mail > Preferences > Accounts
Calendar > Preferences > Accounts
You should also check iCloud for Windows, your Time Capsule or Airport Base Station, and your Apple TV (for iCloud Photos or Home Sharing).
* In China and India, you can use your phone number as your Apple ID.
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What to do if your Apple ID has been hacked
Published August 10th, 2014 at 8:51 AM EDT , modified August 10th, 2014 at 7:30 PM EDT
Apple IDs are a popular target for hackers. This is not only because Apple devices have become so popular, but also because Apple IDs typically provide purchasing power. With an Apple ID, a hacker can purchase music and movies in the iTunes Store or apps in the iOS App Store or Mac App Store on someone else’s dime. Typical symptoms of an Apple ID hack are a sudden inability to log in or strange purchases showing up in your purchase history or on your iOS device. So what do you do if you believe your Apple ID has been hacked?
Effects and Causes
Before discussing how to undo the hack, it’s critically important to understand why dealing with a hacked Apple ID must be done quickly. I’ve seen people who have allowed their Apple IDs to remain hacked for months before bothering to do anything about it. This allows the hacker to continue making purchases with your Apple ID, sending e-mail messages or iMessages as you, accessing your iCloud data, etc. However, there’s an additional problem that most people are either unaware of or don’t think about.
The anti-theft features of Mac and iOS devices involve your Apple ID, and can be abused by someone with access to your Apple ID. Your Apple ID could be used to remotely erase your Mac or iOS devices, which could be a disaster if you don’t maintain a good set of backups. Worse, in iOS 7, your Apple ID can be used to lock your iOS device in a way that cannot be bypassed – even by erasing the iOS device – without access to the Apple ID. If the hacker manages to permanently lock you out of your Apple ID, which can be done in a 3-day period using two-factor verification (more on this shortly), then he/she can then permanently lock your iOS 7 devices!
In other words, if you believe your Apple ID has been hacked, you need to respond quickly and decisively to regain access and lock the hacker out. Failing to do so could cause you to lose all purchases made with your Apple ID, lose all your data and even turn your iOS 7 devices into expensive paperweights!
The first thing most people want to do is scan for viruses, but there is actually little point to doing that. On the Mac, there is very little malware out there, and I’ve never heard of a single confirmed case of an Apple ID being stolen through an infected Mac. On iOS devices (ie, iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches), there is no known malware capable of affecting them unless they have been jailbroken (ie, hacked to disable security in order to download apps from outside the App Store). Further, due to the security features that prevent malware, there is also no anti-virus software capable of scanning an iOS device. If you are using your Apple ID on a Windows machine, keyloggers are possible, but that’s a matter for your Windows anti-virus software and your local Windows tech.
Apple IDs are typically hacked through other means. Some (though certainly not all) possibilities are:
If your password is a poor one, it may fall to simple brute-force attack by a botnet.
You could be fooled by one of the many Apple ID phishing scams circulating, in which you receive an e-mail message that is supposedly from Apple, but when you click the link provided in the message, you end up on a fake Apple site that harvests your login information (if you enter it there).
The e-mail address associated with your Apple ID might have been hacked, possibly allowing a password reset. (The exception here is if you are using an @me.com or @mac.com address as your Apple ID, in which case the address and the Apple ID are the same… hacking one means hacking the other.)
Your password may have been stored insecurely, such as on a Post-It note in your office that any passers-by can see or in a plain text note in some online account that has been hacked.
Your password was the same as that used by some other account you own that was hacked first.
Another account was hacked that gave information about you, such as what your security question answers might be.
Someone with physical access to your devices has installed spyware in order to harass or steal from you. (Yes, this is even a possibility with iOS devices… with physical access, a hacker can jailbreak them, install spyware, then cover up the fact that it’s jailbroken.)
How to undo the hack
If you think that someone with physical access to one or more of your devices has installed spyware, or if you are using Windows and think you’ve been infected with some kind of spyware trojan or virus, you need to deal with that first and foremost. Most people will be tempted to install some kind of anti-virus software and scan for malware, but that is pointless. Anti-virus software cannot detect many of the things that a person with physical access could do. The only meaningful response is to erase any potentially affected devices and reinstall their systems from scratch. Windows users will have to seek help with this elsewhere, but Mac and iOS users can find instructions for doing this here:
Once your devices are secure, if necessary, you need to change your Apple ID password by logging into Apple’s site for managing Apple IDs:
http://appleid.apple.com
You need to be sure to choose a secure password. The longer the better, and it should contain a mix of upper- and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. It should also be a password that you don’t use for anything else, and you must not store it in an insecure manner. Use a password manager or other encrypted file (such as an encrypted disk image) to store the password.
If your Apple ID password has been changed, so that you are unable to log in, you can use the “Reset your password” link on that page to reset the password. However, if the hacker has taken over your e-mail account or has changed your security questions, or if you have made the error of forgetting the answers to your security questions, you will need to seek help from Apple:
http://www.apple.com/support/appleid/contact/
Once you have managed to get access to your Apple ID again, you first need to change your security questions. If the hacker knows them or changed them, they could be used to give the hacker access again. Change the questions, and choose answers that are nonsensical (eg, “What was your first job?” “banana slug”) or even completely random. Be sure to make note of the question/answer pairs in a password manager or encrypted file so that you don’t forget them.
None of this can completely rule out the possibility of a future hack, so you need to lock your account down further by enabling two-factor verification. This doesn’t prevent the account from being hacked, but it does establish additional means for verifying that you own the account. Using two-factor verification yourself is particularly important, because if you don’t do so and your account gets hacked again, the hacker could enable two-factor verification in order to take permanent control of the account. Once two-factor verification is enabled, Apple will not help someone gain access to that account.
For more information about two-factor verification and instructions on how to enable it, see:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5570
As part of the two-factor verification activation process, you will be given a recovery key. DO NOT lose this key! It will be required to reset your password in the future, if you forget your password. If you don’t have it, and have forgotten your password, you will not be able to regain access to your Apple ID.
Once your Apple ID is secured, you need to turn your attention to other accounts. If your Apple ID uses any e-mail addresses that are not @icloud.com, @me.com or @mac.com, then you also need to change the passwords of those accounts. There is a possibility that one of those accounts was hacked, and was used by the hacker to gain access to your Apple ID. Contact your e-mail provider if you aren’t sure how this is done. Be sure to use a secure password, and do not use the same password as the one you used for your Apple ID.
In addition, if you had any online accounts that used the same password as your old Apple ID password, you need to change all those passwords. Again, be sure to use a secure password, and don’t use a password that you are using for any other account. A password manager can be extremely useful for keeping track of all these passwords, but they should be stored in some kind of encrypted file at a minimum.
Once you have regained control of your Apple ID, changed the password and enabled two-factor authentication, the hacker should be locked out. You can now relax, and hopefully your account will never get hacked again!
Updates
August 10, 2014 @ 7:25 pm EST: I forgot to mention one thing… if your Apple ID has been hacked, you should check your purchase history for unauthorized purchases. This is best done in iTunes on a Mac or Windows computer. In iTunes, choose Store -> View Account and enter your password when asked. In the window that opens, click the See All link in the Purchase History section. If you see a purchase that you didn’t make, you’ll need to contact Apple to dispute the charge. Don’t contact your credit card company to dispute the charge unless you want to be locked out of your Apple ID again. (If the card associated with your Apple ID reports an issue to Apple, Apple will immediately lock the Apple ID to prevent further fraudulent purchases.)
THIS WAS TAKEN FROM ONE OF THE MANY DIGITAL NEWSPAPERS I SUBSCRIBER TO CALLED THE HERALD SUN.
Susie O’Brien: Dog delights at Albert Park cafe shows how pampered pooches can be
SUSIE O’BRIEN, Herald Sun
July 20, 2018 8:00pm
Subscriber only
IT’S a dog’s breakfast — literally. An Albert Park cafe is holding a degustation event for dogs. Or should that be dogustation?
From next weekend at Greenfields, the Bone Appetit menu will feature no less than four separate choices for pooches intent on maximising their wellness.
There’s the Beef Feast, which includes grass-fed beef with eggs, kelp, flaxseed, fruit and vegetables and New Zealand green-lipped mussels.
ALBERT PARK EATERY A DOG-FRIENDLY DINER
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There’s also the Lamb Super Food option which includes grass-fed lamb tripe packed with protein and prebiotics and probiotics.
Just when you thought My Dog was the classy choice for your pooch, someone comes along and sets the bar even higher.
Teddy, a corgi, enjoys brunch out on the deck at Greenfields, Albert Park. Picture: David Caird
But what can you expect from a cafe that already has a dog brunch menu that includes bone broth (yes, of course it does), kangaroo pretzels, veggie burger patties, lamb puff crispies, crisp pigs ears, chewy fish twists and puppacinos?
It’s so weird that I had to ring Greenfields to make sure it wasn’t a late April Fool’s joke.
It’s not.
As some of you might know, I am a dog person. I’ve got two beloved pooches: Barney, an aged poodle who looks a bit like a little lamb. And we’ve just bought Dash, a black Schnoodle puppy who’s 12 weeks old and a little cray-cray. We got Dash after our 19-year-old dog Max died and his brother Billy was attacked by a Staffy and died a few years ago.
But even I think this is barking mad.
Greenfields promises the chance to “escape the hustle and bustle of inner-city living and enter a place of community and gathering” where you can “reflect, relax and recharge with a full sensory experience”.
With all those dogs around? I don’t think so.
Reflect on how you’d prefer to drink your latte without a Siberian husky from the next table sniffing your crotch. Relax once the German shepherd has stopped fighting with the bulldog across the room. And recharge your batteries once you’ve cleaned the poo off your shoe.
The up-market eatery’s “full sensory experience” no doubt includes the fragrant smell of doggy do on the lawn — not to mention the sight of them cocking their legs on all the pot plants.
Just when I thought the wellness craze for people had gone as far as it could, we get wellness for dogs. Call me crazy, but I don’t really think my dogs need green clean-eating, wellness and pampering sessions.
How stressful can it be to lie around all day, chase a few cats, eat some food and sneak in a 30-minute snooze every half-hour?
Greenfields isn’t the only one. There’s also a Boronia cafe just for dogs which offers pooches their “signature puppachino” which is $8 and includes a bowl of “cheese and bacon crumble”.
They also offer doggie birthday parties for $20 per dog and doggie weddings ($30 a head including ceremony and games).
Do dogs need green clean-eating, wellness and pampering sessions?
In the city there’s even a cat cafe that charges cat lovers to drink a cup of coffee while playing with a roomful of rescue cats.
Yeah, no thanks.
It’s a sign of the way pets are now considered people too.
Now you can also give your dog or cat a pamper session at a day spa, where specially trained masseurs will “work on specific energy centres that are going to help balance and rejuvenate the animal and leave them lighter than ever”. More likely they’ll work on specific centres like your wallet which will magically be $300 lighter at the end of the day.
In the US the latest trend is “Doga” (rhymes with yoga) which are yoga classes people do with their pets. No thanks. I don’t really want to be upstaged in the downward dog pose.
I’M not surprised Australians spend an estimated $12 billion on their furry friends each year. These days you can buy completely useless (but utterly compelling) items like a pet shower curtain to protect you while you wash your dog, a fold-up chair with a dog carrier in it, a zip-line harness attached to the roof of the car so your dog can look out each window and a doggie high chair for the table.
My favourite is a dog tee pee for them to go to the toilet in. A wee pee, perhaps?
A chihuahua checks some doughnuts for dogs. Picture: Jonathan Ng
There are also robot playmates, bowls that keep track of whether a dog has been fed or not and portable toilet mats.
Whatever happened to the time when every dog had a backyard to live in, was taken for walks by its owner and ate dog food out of a can?
We should listen to doggie experts like Cesar Millan who focuses on training people, not dogs. He reminds us that dogs are animals, not furry humans in disguise. Surely, having dogs doesn’t have to be so complex, demanding or expensive.
Let’s leave wellness for the people and let sleeping dogs lie, run, or do whatever they damn well please.
SOME CRAWL UP YOUR ASS
SOME SNAP UNDER PRESSURE
SOME DONT HAVE THE STRENGTH
TO HOLD YOU UP
SOME GET A LITTLE TWISTED
SOME ARE YOUR FAVOURITES
SOME YOU CAN SEE RIGHT THRU
SOME ARE CHEAP AND JUST PLAIN NASTY,
AND SOME ACTUALLY COVERS YOUR
ASS WHEN YOU NEED THEM TOO!
FATHER MOON AND MOTHER SKY
NOW SEAN'S DAY IS ALL DONE
PLEASE PROTECT SEAN WHERE HE SLEEPS
FROM YOURT HOME IN THE SKY
IN SEANS DREAM'S I ASK YOU SEND HAPPY DREAMS OF THE SUMMERLAND.
BLESSED BE THE MOTHER GODDESS
BY ALL HER MANY NAMES
MAY SHE BLESS MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS
MAY SHE BLESS THE ANIMALS OF THE WORLD
AND PEOPLE EVERYWHERE.
LADY OF THE MOON
LORD OF THE SON
PLEASE PROTECT ME AND MAMA
NOW DAYIS DONE.
OH GOLDEN LIGHT OH SILVER LIGHT
PLEASE WEAVE YOUR PROTECTIVE LIGHT AROUND SEAN
SEAN'S DAY IS DONE
SEAN'S NIGHT BEGUN WITH DREAMS
BEFORE HIM FOUND
SEAN WILL SLEEP IN PEACE AND LIGHT
HIS PROTECTION CIRCLE BOUND.
DIANA GODDESS OF THE MOON
SHINING IN THE SKY ABOVE
BATHE ME IN YOUR MAGICAL LIGHT
AND PROTECT ME WITH YOUR LOVE.
THE HORNED GOD
RUNS IN THE NIGHT
AND HUNTS AMONG THE STARS
MAY HE WATCH OVER AND KEEP ME SAFE
NO MATTER WHERE I AM .
LORD OF THE NIGHT
PLEASE WELCOME ME AS I SLEEP
GUIDE MW INTHE DARKNESS AND PROTECT ME AS I DREAM
NOW I LAY DOWN IN MY BED
AND PULL THE COVERS UP T O MY HEAD
ILL DREAM OF DRAGONS AND FAIRIES BRIGHT
AND PIXIES WIZARDS AND ELVES TONIGHT
ILL DREAM OF A SPECIAL MAGICAL PLACE
AND WAKE WITH A SMILE
UPON MY FACE
GUARDIAN ANGELS PLEASE PROTECT SEAN FROM HARM NOW
AND GUIDE HIS WAY TO SAFETY
THE ANGELS WATCH OVER SEAN'S WAKIGN
AND SLEEPING
THEY GUARD SEAN BY DAY
AND THEY PROTECT SEAN AT NIGHT
IN SUNLIGHT AND MOONLIGHT
THEIR WATCH THEY AE KEEPING
AND ALL THRU THE DARKNESS
SEAN'S SAFE IN THEIR SIGHT!
SEAN'S GUARDED FROM HARM
AND CARED FOR BY ANGELS
HERE STAND'S SEAN
LOVING AND GOOD
FAITHFUL AND STRONG.
NOW UNTO THE BLESSED GODDESS
WHO IS ABLE TO KEEP
ABLE TO KEEP SEAN IN SAFETY
TO THE ONLY WISE GOD AND GOODESS
BE GLORY AND MAJESTY
PROTECTION AND POWER
BOTH NOW AND FOREVER
AMEN
SOME OF SEAN'S OTHER FAVOURITE BLESSINGS
FROM MORNING TO EVENING
THE SUNS RAYS OF GOLD
BRING THE GODDESS'ES STRENGTH
AND PROMISE TO MAKE OUR DEEDS BOLD.
FROM EVENING TO MORNING
ENCLOSED IN THE GODDESSS'ES LOVE
I REST WITH THE MANTLE
AND STARS FROM ABOVE.
NOW ITS TIME TO SAY GOODNIGHT
NOW ITS TIME TO SAY GOODBIGHT
NOW ITS TIME TO SAY GOODNIGHT
SEE YOU AGAIN IN THE MORNING.
FOR FOOD AND FRIENDS
AND ALL THE BLESSINGS THAT THE GODDESSES SENDS
WE GIVE THANKS.
THESE WERE GIVEN TO ME BY FRIENDS ADN FAMILY AND THERE WERE NOT WRITEN BY ME, BUT AS THEY ARE CONSIDERED SACRED TO MY SON PLEASE ASK PERMISSON IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO EITHER USE OR HAVE A COPY THANK YOU.
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