What and where is the Gatekeeper app or service? The answer is that it’s a collaborative system or technology to check apps and ensure that only trusted software is run.
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Running a Mac as a server supports all the features of HFS+ and APFS, services such as Content Caching, and spares us from learning Linux. But does it work?
What should you do when Gatekeeper refuses to let you run a newly installed app? How human paradoxical behaviour makes us do the wrong things.
Checks on app signatures and notarization of notarized apps will be performed each time they’re run. How to deal with problems, and what not to do.
In Monterey, the size of macOS updates has been steadily shrinking. Ventura brings RSRs, which should be small patches to fix security bugs without fuss. Here are the details.
Short explanations of all the information reported in SilentKnight, and its command line equivalent silnite.
Two readers reported odd warnings when checking macOS malware scans. Are they significant, or errors? And what are the differences between XProtect and XProtect.app?
GUI software and the commands you need to get the signature of an app checked thoroughly by macOS, plus a detailed list of error code.
What if you see no scans at all? Or just ‘private’ results? What should make you concerned, and what’s normal?
Apple has just pushed an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing […]
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