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Last Week on My Mac: A silent silent security update

Did Sierra systems have a silent update to OSX1012IncompatibleAppList around 4 January 2018? It looks like another worrying mistake by Apple.

January 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

New macOS malware: MaMi

Patrick Wardle, of Objective-See, has just reported what he believes to be new malware running on macOS, which […]

January 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

Adobe has updated Flash Player

Adobe has just released version 28.0.0.137 of its Flash Player. If you one of the dwindling few who […]

January 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has updated Safari 11.0.2, High Sierra 10.13.2, and iOS 11.2.2

Apple has just released the following security updates, to address CPU security vulnerabilities known as Spectre: macOS High […]

January 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

WD My Cloud drives need urgent firmware update

If you use a WD My Cloud drive, you should check as a matter of urgency that its […]

January 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Off to a good start, then

Hectic with SIP problems in High Sierra, the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, then iCloud Drive’s strange stripping of extended attributes.

January 7, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

The ‘app’ you can’t trash: how SIP is broken in High Sierra

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.

January 2, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

Last Year on My Mac: Accident-prone

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.

December 31, 2017 Macs, Technology

SystHist now provides a structured history of updates too

Provides two views of your Mac’s update history: a simple text list, as before, and a structured version ideal for Macs with long histories.

December 26, 2017 Macs, Technology

Browse your Mac’s system and security update history with SystHist

A simple tool to list, in chronological order, all system and security updates. Runs on Sierra and High Sierra, and should be good on El Capitan too.

December 22, 2017 Macs, Technology

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