Spring is obviously the season for the detection of new malware affecting macOS and OS X users. This […]
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Significant bugs or undesirable features limiting log, Console, and os_log as of 10.12.4.
Getting GCD to schedule and dispatch a packaged external task, like a backup, is actually straightforward. Here’s how.
An experimental tool to let you schedule background tasks of your own, which are managed by Grand Central Dispatch. First alpha release.
Apple’s recent updates to XProtect and MRT covered not only OSX/Dok, the new Trojan discovered by Ofer Caspi […]
Sierra 10.12.4 introduced undocumented changes in the log system which may break apps which write to the logs. Here is Blowhole fixed for that change.
The aim is to be able to run commands at regular intervals using GCD rather than launchd. Here are details of the code and resulting log entries, casting light on how GCD works.
Despite its documentation vanishing, it’s clear that GCD does a lot more than provide an easy way to concurrency for app developers.
Ofer Caspi, of the Check Point malware research team, has published details of new malware targeting macOS and […]
Why can’t you restore Chess.app from a backup, or trash Text Edit? How should you check that SIP’s protection is enabled on your Mac?
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