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XProtect version 2109 for macOS Catalina 10.15.2 only

Bundled, or perhaps buried, within the macOS Catalina 10.15.2 update released yesterday, 10 December, is an update to […]

December 11, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

What’s changed in the Mojave 10.14.6 Security Update 2019-002?

The second Security Update for macOS Mojave 10.14.6 (2019-002) was a hefty download considering how few fixes it […]

December 11, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has released Catalina 10.15.2 update and Security Updates for High Sierra and Mojave

Apple has just released the Catalina update to 10.15.2, which weighs in at just under 3.5 GB, and […]

December 10, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Stick a fork in it, and other flashbacks

Classic resource forks passed into Mac OS X, but were deprecated by Apple in 10.8. Now in Catalina they can stop working: is this a new security measure?

December 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: ‘private’

Over a period of one minute 1636 of a total of 8638 log entries were censored with the mark ‘private’. Why can’t we disable this censorship?

November 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

How to encrypt files and folders in APFS

What if you don’t want whole disk encryption? If your Mac doesn’t have T2, or if you’re using an external drive, encryption is still performed in software. Here’s a good solution.

November 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to XProtect

Apple has just pushed an update to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

November 13, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Preparing for new security rules: how signatures can get stripped

A future version of macOS (?10.16) will check code signatures more thoroughly than at present. Here’s what to do to start preparing for that.

November 12, 2019 Macs, Technology

Hardened runtime, sandboxing and XPC services

Jeff Johnson of @lapcatsoftware has just published an excellent technical article looking at controversial issues over hardening, sandboxing, […]

November 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Starting up in Catalina: sequence and waypoints in the log

Some important similarities, such as the entry marking the beginning of startup, but plenty of changes in APFS and security entries.

November 6, 2019 Macs, Technology

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