In a study conducted by security research firm Zscaler, 28% of Android apps request permission to read old SMS logs, while a whopping 68% request permission to send SMS messages from your phone. They ...

Managing permissions on files and folders can be an enormous time drain for IT professionals. Users have home folders, departments have proprietary folders, projects have unique folders — the list ...

When the setting to ignore permissions on secondary hard drives keeps toggling off, blocking access, here's what to try. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...

For most of the Paranoid Penguin's illustrious four years with Linux Journal, I've tended to write tools-focused columns. I've described how to secure Sendmail, how to add SSL encryption to things by ...

Yesterday, we reported that multi-instancing support is coming to Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps in Windows 10. As the name implies, it allows apps to open multiple independent instances which ...

Since you use a Mac, then at some point you’ve likely run into the mention of a “Permissions Fix” as a solution to just about any problem—slowdowns, random crashes, your Mac not booting up. Because it ...

Flatpak apps are gaining serious popularity on Linux distributions but managing the permissions of those apps can be a challenge. But with this handy GUI tool, those permissions are simple to deal ...

Many Windows users are unable to start Windows Store Apps downloaded from the Microsoft Store because of some modification in Registry & File Permissions. In this article, we are going to suggest some ...

According to Jason Wingate, the CEO of marketing firm Emerald Ocean Ltd. and a veteran of enterprise IT implementations, managing file system ACLs and permissions properly isn’t just about keeping ...