Apple has just released updates to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5289, […]
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Users should be given a third option to defer updating further, as well as doing it now or later tonight. Does the DAS scheduling and dispatch system rely on security through obscurity too?
From their origin with an email engine in 1993, to the addition of the more secure Data Protection keychain supporting passkeys and much more.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]
How Apple’s new CPU cores can guess which code to run, and which data to load from memory. How those speculative techniques can be exploited, and should we be worried?
The difference between consent and intent, why an app adds itself to Settings, and when you should add it to Full Disk Access.
Permissions, privacy and security protections can conspire to prevent us from accessing our own files. They aren’t integrated, consistent or documented, and badly need improvement.
Important security fixes, but no published CVE entries, according to Apple. But digging deeper was also unhelpful. Could it be GoFetch, or SLAP and FLOP?
Is there a Secure Exclave Processor in M4 chips, a sister to the Secure Enclaves in Macs with T1, T2 or Apple silicon chips? What are they, and what do they do?
Apple has just released a security update to macOS Sequoia to bring it to version 15.3.1, and security […]
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