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Behind the Scenes: Open Directory and Kerberos

These services don’t often appear in the limelight, but the recent vulnerability in High Sierra reminds us how important they still are.

December 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

High Sierra’s security update can block file sharing

If you are running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 and have just applied the Security Update (2017-001) to fix […]

November 30, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple has released Security Update 2017-001 for macOS High Sierra (updated)

Apple has just released a security update, the first for High Sierra 10.13.1, which it claims fixes the […]

November 29, 2017 Macs, Technology

Major vulnerability in High Sierra 10.13.1: anyone can gain elevated privileges (updated)

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Any local user can gain admin privileges without knowing any password – and that even applies to guest accounts.

November 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

More keychains than meets the eye

How many keychains does your Mac have? The answer is surprisingly elusive, and neither Keychain Access nor the security command tell the truth.

November 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

Tools to work with keychain problems

Overview of the features of all available tools for working with keychains – including one running on Windows!

November 27, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Vanishing keychains

Why doesn’t High Sierra record the opening of keychains in the log, in the way that Sierra does? Has Apple abandoned the goals of its new unified log?

November 26, 2017 Macs, Technology

Are you being pestered to upgrade to High Sierra?

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This marketing notification was silently installed using Apple’s pushed update service, and is easily removed.

November 22, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beware the bogus Symantec blog which will infect you with Proton D

For the last few days, there has been a website posing as a Symantec security blog, at symantecblog[dot]com, […]

November 22, 2017 Macs, Technology

Who’s in control of your Mac? Notifications

Are you getting over-notified? Who’s in charge – you the user, or macOS? Getting control of notifications, both local and remote.

November 10, 2017 Macs, Technology

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