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How to add a custom icon to an app without breaking its signature

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In Mojave and Catalina, tampering with the contents of an app bundle risks breaking signature checks. Here’s how to work around that.

July 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

Privacy protection can pay off when it’s allowed to

For once, Mojave’s privacy protection worked in favour of the user, in stopping Zoom’s old app from regaining access to your camera and microphone.

July 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed another update to MRT

Apple has pushed a third update to MRT bringing its version to 1.47 dated 18 July 2019. Apple […]

July 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

How apps can check integrity better than macOS

How deeply does macOS check a signature? What are all the static code validation flags? Should my app leave macOS to perform signature checks?

July 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

How to check that your Mac is free of Zoom and similar web servers

Sleep easier at night knowing that there shouldn’t be a hidden web server running on your Mac. Here’s how to check.

July 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

SilentKnight 1.1 has improvements, particularly for Catalina

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Increases maximum text size, adds macOS version to the report, and fixes a lot for the latest Catalina beta 4.

July 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to Gatekeeper and MRT

Apple has pushed updates to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 172, dated 16 […]

July 16, 2019 Macs, Technology

Why does SilentKnight/LockRattler show TCC is out of date?

The apps claim my Mac is running an old version, but that the newer version was installed weeks ago. How come?

July 16, 2019 Macs, Technology

SilentKnight 1.0 takes over from EFIcienC for checking and updating security data

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First release version of what was EFIcienC, to check EFI firmware, security settings, and security updates automatically.

July 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Does anyone here know about MRT?

Did you restart your Mac after the critical update to MRT this week? Was Apple’s guidance on the update helpful? Or is this security by riddle?

July 14, 2019 Macs, Technology

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