A more objective comparison with the El Capitan and Sierra product cycles shows that High Sierra isn’t that much worse. Although APFS has matured well, a few obvious and serious security gaffes have marred this cycle.
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Introducing a new version of SystHist which lets you see everything that Apple, the App Store, and silent updates install, for El Capitan, Sierra, and High Sierra.
Did Sierra systems have a silent update to OSX1012IncompatibleAppList around 4 January 2018? It looks like another worrying mistake by Apple.
Patrick Wardle, of Objective-See, has just reported what he believes to be new malware running on macOS, which […]
Adobe has just released version 28.0.0.137 of its Flash Player. If you one of the dwindling few who […]
Apple has just released the following security updates, to address CPU security vulnerabilities known as Spectre: macOS High […]
If you use a WD My Cloud drive, you should check as a matter of urgency that its […]
Hectic with SIP problems in High Sierra, the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, then iCloud Drive’s strange stripping of extended attributes.
When you can’t remove an app which you installed just a few minutes ago, you know there’s something wrong. Here’s the solution, and why this is bad security.
2017 was never going to be easy, and Apple had a lot of accidents over its closing months. It delivered a lot of new products, and with them a lot of new problems.
The Eclectic Light Company 