The Unofficial Guide to macOS Catalina

We’re building a world where technology enriches human life, not disrupts it. We create tech products, but we always center our focus and our actions on people. After all, technology is here only to help humans be their better selves. Humans and technology are most effective when they work together; our job is to make this magic spark happen. In the meantime, MacPaw is committed to supporting its team and the people of Ukraine more broadly. As mentioned, it’s offering ClearVPN 2 free of charge for all Ukrainians, and people working in the media in Ukraine can also claim one year of the CleanMyMac app free of charge.

In what I see as a tragic admission, Tkachenko told us that you become “accustomed” to war. The company remains in Kyiv and 70% of its employees remain in Ukraine. Some of its staff are serving in the armed forces in some capacity. The company admitted to facing a slew of unexpected challenges.

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As we have seen, developers have been shaping the product offerings accordingly the new cybersecurity landscape, and we can expect new releases and product updates as new cyber threats emerged. What’s certain is that «all is not quiet on mac paw the cyber front» across Ukraine. While using SpyBuster to analyze the data of one of Ukraine’s local media websites, staff at MacPaw noticed that the site had connections to Russian servers and was immediately able to fix the problem.

• It determines whether any apps are Russian or from Belarus, and also whether any data is sent to servers in those regions.
• MacPaw’s CEO has been very involved on social media to help fight back against Russian propaganda using both his own personal platforms and the accounts linked with the company and its products.
• Setapp is a one-stop subscription to solving every task on Mac and iPhone.
• Perhaps not the ideal software, though, for those looking for a more customizable experience.
• A real-world  example of a woman in a leadership position in tech, she explained how her company planned for business continuity during the war in Ukraine.

Our aim is to ensure that the transition to this new marketplace is smooth and that it continues to meet the high standards our users have come to expect from Setapp. And finally, MacPaw is offering foreign media outlets, who are covering the war in Ukraine, free access to CleanMyMac X by MacPaw, the company’s brilliant macOS cleaning, optimization and protection software. We talked to some of the team to understand what it’s like running a cybersecurity business in times of war—especially when your enemy is Russia, home to some of the smartest hackers in the world. Dynamic Analysis shows how those apps and websites are currently behaving. SpyBuster scans the connections in real-time and displays history logs that show whether the connection is secure.

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Unsurprisingly, this was enough to quickly become a target of Russia’s army of hackers. «We experienced the first DDos attack in the first week of war,» said Tkachenko. Declutter your Apple Vision Pro by removing apps you don’t want or need anymore. While Russian forces are invading Ukraine by land and with bombs from the air, Putin’s forces have also started hacking Ukraine’s state digital systems and spreading disinformation. Many of these risks were managed by moving infrastructure to the cloud, but the company also put a range of response plans in place.

Another security tool that emerged from the necessity of defending against Russia’s new cyber threats is SpyBuster. For the first weeks of the war, the company had assigned an emergency team of experts tasked with keeping its products and services stable. Those teams had to be highly knowledgeable about the product/service they looked after, and had to locate to a safer zone, either in Ukraine or abroad. Any movement was planned pre-war and staff adopted use of a safe, encrypted alternative communication channel. The second option, «dynamic analysis», investigates what the apps installed actually do. Again, the tool blocks the traffic when diverted to unsecure servers in Russia and Belarus.

A real-world  example of a woman in a leadership position in tech, she explained how her company planned for business continuity during the war in Ukraine. The company has come a long way since then, maintaining good UI and strong user-friendly design at the core of everything it does. Its product offering now counts 11 different applications across all the main operating systems, including Windows, Android and iOS. The app’s scan results are processed and stored locally on the user’s device, and not shared with MacPaw.

If you’ve installed macOS Catalina and something went wrong. Don’t worry, here’s your cheat sheet to downgrade from Catalina to Mojave. ClearVPN by MacPaw got the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Award. ClearVPN was selected as the winner of the «Mobile VPN Solution of the Year» award from the CyberSecurity Breakthrough.

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The company has been donating funds and volunteering on-site while running a series of social campaigns since the war began, too. If you wish to donate, check its MacPaw Foundation page to know more. «We have conducted some research and we realized that a lot of Ukrainian mass media sites were using scripts that send some data to Russian servers and they even didn’t know about it,» he said. User priorities changed when the conflict began, especially as the Kremlin seized control of the internet in these areas while Russian soldiers were occupying Ukrainian territories.

They needed an effective solution for accessing Western content. This is exactly where the VPN’s skill of spoofing people’s IP addresses comes very handy. «They attack, we protect. We are always ready to react,» said Tkachenko. None of this discouraged MacPaw to keep going with its mission. «When we’re talking about war it’s very important where you stay physically,» said Tkachenko. «Our office changed dramatically because we needed to have shelters and all that stuff. We expected that Kyiv could be occupied and we wouldn’t have access to our office.»