OS X and macOS make it very easy for malware to make itself persistent. It’s time for High Sierra to improve protection of the user.
El Capitan
Apple has just pushed a silent update to the Gatekeeper configuration data for Sierra and El Capitan. This […]
Apple has just pushed two security updates, and a Chinese Word List update. The security updates bring its […]
How to run one-off backups, how to cancel automatic backups, and how to set your own backup schedules.
How scheduling concurrent and background tasks using XPC Activity works, and compares with alternatives such as NSBackgroundActivityScheduler.
The good thing about the Sierra 10.12.5 update is that it seems to have caused few problems. But what did it actually address?
Transferring a decision-making guide from a quick flowchart into Tinderbox notes.
When part of the mechanism which schedules and dispatches Time Machine backups fails, those backups become irregular. Here it is shown in a clear diagram.
Diagrams how a routine Time Machine backup is scheduled and dispatched using CTS and DAS.
Apple has pushed out two further updates to the security tools which come with OS X El Capitan […]
