Apps often have to use separate services to perform privileged tasks for them, or run time-consuming activities in the background. XPC is how the client communicates with those services.
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This week’s XProtect update is important in extending its ability to check scripts now popular in malware. These are run when macOS is preparing to run a script.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5327. As usual, it doesn’t release […]
Apple has just released security updates for macOS Catalina and Big Sur. Yes, you saw that right, macOS […]
Follow a sponsored result in Google to a page in Medium that provides a Terminal command that you will live to regret. And what is Marek’s disease?
Apple has just released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5326. As usual, it doesn’t release […]
What can you do to protect your Mac when a stranger asks you to take a look at a document or app? Two alternatives for doing this is safety, rather than risk being victim to a phishing attack.
Do you check XProtect Remediator scans using XProCheck on your laptop Mac? How often are its scans run there, daily or erratically?
Catch up on your reading with selected articles from the past year, covering security, logs, macOS generally, Spotlight in particular, and some utilities.
Authentication dialogs for Macs with and without support for Touch ID, in recent versions of macOS including Tahoe, and how to tell whether a request in Terminal is genuine.
The Eclectic Light Company 