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macOS 10.13

What to do when iCloud Drive is slow to update

You’ve uploaded files to your iCloud Drive on another system, but an hour or more later other systems can’t see them. Here’s a solution.

March 31, 2018 Macs, Technology

Encryption passphrases are still left in logs: how Apple abuses its unified log

I wrote yesterday that macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 finally fixes the leakage of APFS encryption passphrases into the […]

March 31, 2018 Macs, Technology

What’s in the High Sierra 10.13.4 update?

Apple was a little more forthcoming in the list of improvements and fixes in macOS High Sierra 10.13.4, […]

March 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 fixes APFS encryption password disclosure bug

The latest update to High Sierra, bringing it to 10.13.4, does fix the bug discovered by Sarah Edwards […]

March 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

macOS High Sierra 10.13.4, Sierra and El Cap Security Update 2018-002, and Safari 11.1 released (updated)

Overnight (UTC), Apple has released the update to High Sierra 10.13.4, Safari 11.1, and security updates to El […]

March 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Should Apple have warned users of a vulnerability?

Did Apple keep quiet for more than 3 months about the leak of encryption passphrases into High Sierra’s log files?

March 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 still leaks encryption passwords in plain text

I previously described a serious vulnerability in macOS High Sierra versions to 10.13.1 which was discovered by Sarah […]

March 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Is the unified log private, or a vulnerability?

How good is the new unified log’s privacy? Does it live up to Apple’s goal of designing privacy into the system, or is it easily beaten? And how did passwords leak into the log?

March 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

Another gaping security hole in High Sierra APFS disk encryption (updated)

Congratulations to Sarah Edwards for unearthing a security vulnerability in macOS 10.13 High Sierra, in which copies of […]

March 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

macOS Unified log: 3 finding your way

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Waypoints identified for shutdown and startup, login, system sleep and wake, and fast user switching. How to write to the log from a shell script, and accessing the separate installation log. Finally, security and audit.

March 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

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