Over the last 6 years, XProtect’s Yara rules for detection of malware have increased by a factor of 4, and they now take over 22 times as much space. Here are the numbers and charts.
Category Archive: Macs
Annotations are complicated. If you’re not careful, hidden annotations can be left in documents and cause embarrassment. And how to recover a PDF that Preview has mutilated.
How to find images containing objects recognised by Visual Look Up, and text by Live Text, using Spotlight, mdfind and in an app.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]
How images have text recognised within them as Live Text, and objects of interest are classified, using VisionKit, mediaanalysisd, Espresso, the ANE and more.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 320. Here are my solutions to them. 1: What […]
Six years ago, the old MRT saved millions of Macs from coming under attack. XPR could one day do the same. A new deep dive into its function has just been presented at Black Hat. Also updates on status_code 30 and missed scans.
macOS gained Live Text and Visual Look Up when Apple declared its intent to check our images. Both are used in Spotlight’s indexes, but their function seems unreliable and highly variable.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: What ET […]
Adobe’s Carousel reader came in 1993, and in Mac OS X PDF was built into its Quartz graphics. That enabled Preview to become the claimed ‘fastest PDF viewer on the planet’.
The Eclectic Light Company 