In this installation of Getting to know your Mac, the MacFixIt editors will be taking a look at the Keychain Access utility. Keychain Access allows you to manage your passwords for everything from Web ...

You’ve undoubtedly noticed that you’re not routinely nagged for a password when you use your Mac’s email client, nor do you have to enter passwords for many of ...

Following this week's LinkedIn password disaster, Mac users are naturally worried about their passwords and not just for their LinkedIn accounts. What if you used a password in another place? It could ...

If you’ve ever encountered a dialog box that, upon asking for a password, offers to store it, you’ve had a brush with OS X’s keychain. And perhaps you think that’s all it’s good for—storing your web, ...

Many times when you log into a network resource or access a system setting you will be prompted for a password, with the option to save the password in your keychain. This convenience allows you to ...

I will start this out by reminding everyone that you should be using a password manager to store and protect all of your passwords. We've reached a point where password managers should be considered ...

The easiest way to see a Wi-Fi password on a Mac computer is through the Keychain Access app. Alternatively, saved Wi-Fi passwords can be viewed through the Terminal on Mac. Seeing saved Wi-Fi ...

Has your Mac suddenly started asking you for account and Wi-Fi passwords it never used to require? Is your Mail app asking you to enter the password relentlessly ...

A new version of the long-running Genieo adware has brought with it a new technique for accessing the OS X Keychain without user intervention, a security gray area that could be used by other ...