Apple’s biggest wins and misses of 2025
As 2025 comes to a close, Macworld is proud to present our Apple awards,ta look back at the best and worst of everything released over the past 12 months. It was a busy year for…
December 2025
December 2025
The Case for Dynamic AI-SaaS Security as Copilots Scale
Within the past year, artificial intelligence copilots and agents have quietly permeated the SaaS applications businesses use every day. Tools like Zoom, Slack, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and ServiceNow now come with built-in AI assistants or…
How can I recover lost or deleted data from my Mac
Life might not be entirely paperless yet, but the truth is that the vast majority of our important documents, photos, videos and other files are all now digital. This is good, as it saves space…
Macworld Podcast: 2025 Apple software and services year in review
It was a big year for Apple software and services. We talk about Liquid Glass, Apple Intelligence, Apple TV, and the other services and software that shaped the company’s year. This is episode 963 with Michael Simon, Jason…
Kimsuky Spreads DocSwap Android Malware via QR Phishing Posing as Delivery App
Dec 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Mobile Security The North Korean threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to a new campaign that distributes a new variant of Android malware called DocSwap via QR codes…
CISA Flags Critical ASUS Live Update Flaw After Evidence of Active Exploitation
Dec 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Software Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical flaw impacting ASUS Live Update to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of…
Cisco Warns of Active Attacks Exploiting Unpatched 0-Day in AsyncOS Email Security Appliances
Dec 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security Cisco has alerted users of a maximum-severity zero-day flaw in Cisco AsyncOS software that has been actively exploited by a China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) actor codenamed UAT-9686…
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT image generator makes faking photos easy
For most of photography’s roughly 200-year history, altering a photo convincingly required either a darkroom, some Photoshop expertise, or, at minimum, a steady hand with scissors and glue. On Tuesday, OpenAI released a tool that…
Apple’s AirTag leather key rings are more than half off right now
Listen, AirTags are absolutely awesome, but they do lack one feature that we see on other Bluetooth trackers, and that’s a way to easily hook them up to keychains on their own. Therefore, you have…
Cisco says Chinese hackers are exploiting its customers with a new zero-day
On Wednesday, Cisco announced hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in some of its most popular products that allows the full takeover of affected devices. Worse, there are no patches available at this time. In…