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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

Last Week on My Mac: Talking the same language

We eradicated smallpox, and are on the verge of doing the same to polio. Simple lessons on naming and communicating extend to macOS malware, and Apple’s role.

March 18, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Apple has also pushed an update to MRT (updated)

Following yesterday’s pushed update to XProtect, Apple has overnight pushed an update to its malware removal tool MRT, […]

March 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has just pushed an update to XProtect’s security data

Apple has just pushed an update to the configuration data for its XProtect tool, which detects malware on […]

March 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

What to do when a secure connection fails

You go to connect to a website at an HTTPS address. When it can’t establish the secure connection you expect, your browser warns you. What do you do next?

February 26, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has updated Gatekeeper configuration data

Apple has today pushed an update to Gatekeeper configuration data, which should have been silently installed on your […]

February 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

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