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Last Week on My Mac: Human frailty

Over a million people learned that very personal details of their had been leaking from an unsecured server. What should we learn?

August 11, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

The ‘hardened runtime’ explained

Newly-built apps supplied by developers outside the App Store need now to be notarized. This in turn requires hardening, but what is that?

August 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

Firewalls, phoning home and whitelists

Mac users are increasingly using software firewalls to prevent apps from making outgoing connections. Here are some tips, and links to help you build whitelists.

August 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

Tools updated to fix security errors when opening documents

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Keep control over documents with quarantine flags to avoid bizarre security errors, using new versions of Pratique and Sandstrip.

August 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has released macOS Mojave 10.14.6 Supplemental Update

Apple has just released macOS Mojave 10.14.6 Supplemental Update, which it says addresses problems in some Macs when […]

August 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

SilentKnight and silnite: FAQ

Answers to the most commonly asked questions on my free utilities SilentKnight and its command tool sibling silnite.

August 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data with two version numbers

Apple has pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 175, dated […]

July 31, 2019 Macs, Technology

SilentKnight’s security update checks from the command line

Ideal for keeping an eye on networked Macs, this command tool can do everything SilentKnight can in the way of firmware and security update checks.

July 31, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has released High Sierra and Sierra Security Updates 2019-004 again

Apple has released fixed versions of the Sierra and High Sierra Security Updates 2019-004, which it first released […]

July 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

Taccy 1.1 fixes a crashing bug and adds several new features

An unexpected behaviour in the codesign command could cause the app to crash when examining certain app. Now fixed, plus several new features.

July 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

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