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Tackling keychain problems with KeychainCheck 2, now a Universal App

Universal App version of a utility to scrutinise your keychains and help diagnose their problems.

September 7, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Has notarization burned?

Just over a week ago, security experts discovered the first macOS malware which has been notarized. Doesn’t that make Apple’s security worthless?

September 6, 2020 Macs, Technology

Checking signatures on apps

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A new Universal App version of Signet, which checks signatures on apps and other bundles.

September 5, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Is macOS becoming unmaintainable?

Provision of maintenance procedures and tools is at the heart of software engineering, but not in macOS.

August 30, 2020 Macs, Technology

Quarantined documents, Pratique and Sandstrip

Some documents can’t be opened with apps which should be able to edit them. These tools address problems with their metadata.

August 29, 2020 Macs, Technology

How notarization works

How developers get their software notarized, and how that works when you try to run it on your Mac.

August 28, 2020 Macs, Technology

How can you rebuild or repair an APFS Volume Group?

If something goes wrong with Catalina’s boot Volume Group, it seems there’s no way to repair it, or change the Data volume. Or is there?

August 26, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Where privacy protection fails

Privacy protection differs between GUI and the command line, causing anomalies which are being exploited to steal private data.

August 23, 2020 Macs, Technology

The vulnerability in Remote Login (ssh) persists

How to gain access to protected folders without having to add anything to the Privacy pane yourself. Now being exploited in the wild.

August 20, 2020 Macs, Technology

Getting more from document versions in macOS

Why documents can lose their old versions when moving them around, and what you can do to preserve them.

August 17, 2020 Macs, Technology

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