Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to […]
Category Archive: Macs
How can you run apps and executable code that hasn’t been notarised? Can you also run those with broken signatures, or none at all? And do the controls actually disable Gatekeeper or XProtect?
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 372. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Fruit element […]
Does your backup storage really need to be twice the capacity of your Mac’s internal SSD? If you’re already backing it up you can estimate the size required more accurately, as given here.
The latest XProtect update brings behavioural detection of malware, and extends assurance of app identification beyond notarisation. For some but not all Macs.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Fruit element […]
How to discover which app ‘owns’ the mapping between a filename extension and its UTI, and whether you can do anything to fix a conflict.
A new file in the latest XProtect data is set to protect private data used by eight widely used third-party apps, including popular web browsers. But which version of macOS will do this?
Apple has released security updates to macOS Tahoe, bringing it to version 26.6.1, for Sequoia to 15.7.9, and […]
macOS Sequoia and Tahoe have changed the way Gatekeeper and XProtect are controlled. Can a user disable them, and if so, how? And how can you check whether both are enabled?
