How can you run apps and executable code that hasn’t been notarised? Can you also run those with broken signatures, or none at all? And do the controls actually disable Gatekeeper or XProtect?
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The latest XProtect update brings behavioural detection of malware, and extends assurance of app identification beyond notarisation. For some but not all Macs.
A new file in the latest XProtect data is set to protect private data used by eight widely used third-party apps, including popular web browsers. But which version of macOS will do this?
Apple has released security updates to macOS Tahoe, bringing it to version 26.6.1, for Sequoia to 15.7.9, and […]
macOS Sequoia and Tahoe have changed the way Gatekeeper and XProtect are controlled. Can a user disable them, and if so, how? And how can you check whether both are enabled?
Apple has just released its weekly update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]
Few Macs survived the past week without an update, and for more recent models that meant two updates. Have we gone forward, and if so, where have we got to?
The commands to use with softwareupdate to download and install different types of update and complete macOS installers. And how to deal with XProtect in Sequoia and later.
Apple has just released another update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, its second in the last […]
Although it brings a record number of 143 security fixes, changes in version 26.6 seem fairly modest in […]
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