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Category Archive: Macs

USB ports on Apple Silicon Macs: Accessory Security and liquid detection

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How laptop Apple silicon Macs help prevent attack by malicious USB and TB devices using Accessory Security, and why some of them also have liquid detectors in their USB-C ports.

March 13, 2025 Macs, Technology

Why all this privacy protection? An overview

The difference between security and privacy, how consent and intent are obtained, how this works with command tools, important links, lists of protected resources and tccutil arguments.

March 12, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]

March 11, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has just released macOS Sequoia 15.3.2

Apple has just released an update for macOS Sequoia bringing it to version 15.3.2. There are also Safari […]

March 11, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

XProtect Remediator has changed its behaviour

Since the update to XProtect Remediator version 151, many have seen warnings of a plugin being cancelled. This explains how that happens, and what you can do about it.

March 11, 2025 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 298

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 298. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Causing […]

March 10, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Manage privacy protection for network devices and others

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Survey of other privacy controls, including those involved in scripting and for development. Details of the new control on access to devices on the local network.

March 10, 2025 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Increasingly insecure in Sequoia

XProtect’s updates are now less timely and reliable than they were in previous versions of macOS, leaving some Macs not updated for over 48 hours after release of a new version.

March 9, 2025 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 298

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Causing to […]

March 8, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of system preferences and settings

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From System 7’s Control Panels, through Mac OS X’s System Prefs, then System Preferences. And what happened in Ventura.

March 8, 2025 Macs, Technology

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