Sometimes, Macs just don’t keep up with security updates pushed silently by Apple. Here’s how to avoid suffering that problem.
Gatekeeper
Did Apple stop pushing updates to security data files for El Capitan back in May 2019?
Its very convenient and quick to transfer files between Macs, but also sets the quarantine flag on everything it transfers. This can cause problems.
Details of their locations, purposes, and the current installed version. These have changed a great deal since Mojave.
Added support for this new security database in new versions of SilentKnight, LockRattler and silnite.
Apple has just pushed a security update which is new to Catalina systems: Gatekeeper Compatibility Data 1.0. Several […]
How have checks of notarization changed what happens when you open a quarantined app in Catalina? What does XProtect do?
Yesterday, I explained how you can ensure that macOS 10.15 Catalina will open an app which doesn’t meet […]
Confused as to whether Catalina will let you run that quarantined app? Here it is diagrammed.
Apple has pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 181, dated […]
