Apple appears to be maintaining MRT, but hasn’t changed detection signatures in XProtect for 9 months. What does this mean for the security of macOS and its users?
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Don’t just throw it in a box and send it off: what happens if its internal storage is replaced or wiped? What about protecting sensitive files? Does a T2 chip make this difficult?
Apple has just pushed an update to its malware removal tool, MRT, for macOS, bringing its version number […]
Apple has just pushed an update to the ‘Yara’ data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number […]
What does the iCloud icon mean in the App Store? That the app has to be ‘redownloaded’. So what does it mean when every app you ever bought shows it?
A proposal for ensuring consistent display of Rich Text across apps and tools in macOS, and elsewhere.
Mojave’s handling of Rich Text in Dark Mode is now broken in several places, including the new version of TextEdit, in QuickLook, and Pages.
Has Apple changed App Store behaviour in 10.14.2? Does it now leave updates in the cloud, or is it just broken?
Not as large as the previous update to Mojave, it still replaces a lot of apps but Apple documents almost no changes. Here’s a summary of the detail.
Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 157, […]
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