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Checking signatures on apps

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A new Universal App version of Signet, which checks signatures on apps and other bundles.

September 5, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Achieving the CIS Apple macOS 10.15 Benchmark

If you’re working towards this benchmark (or those for earlier versions of macOS), or want to maintain systems to its requirements, I have something to help you.

September 4, 2020 Macs, Technology

SilentKnight, LockRattler and silnite: which should you use?

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LockRattler for manual checks, SilentKnight to check automatically, and silnite for networked Macs and automation.

September 3, 2020 Macs, Technology

How notarization works

How developers get their software notarized, and how that works when you try to run it on your Mac.

August 28, 2020 Macs, Technology

SilentKnight version 1.10 and silnite command tool version 5

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Extensively revised for improved compatibility with Big Sur and Apple Silicon Macs, with minor fixes for other systems too.

August 27, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Dead divers, security exploits, and Swiss cheese

Oxygen rebreather diving sets have been involved in many diving deaths. They and layered security can be analysed using James Reason’s Swiss cheese model of causation.

August 25, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

SystHist version 1.13 works better with Big Sur, and is a Universal App

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A full browsable history of your Mac’s system and security updates in this free utility for 10.11-11.0.

August 24, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple Silicon Macs will require signed code

Coming now to Apple Silicon Macs: all ARM-native executable code is required to be signed. Full details of this important change.

August 22, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Apple has pushed two updates today, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

August 20, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Heavy hand on the kill switch

Imagine going to open an app which you use daily, only to be told by macOS that it “will damage your computer” and must be trashed. Can we have confidence in Apple?

August 9, 2020 Macs, Technology

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