Disk Utility claims to perform secure erase on SSDs, but does no such thing. Here are workarounds to do what it doesn’t, and details of a bug preventing encryption of APFS volumes.
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Can you trust Disk Utility to securely erase hard drives and SSDs? How to prepare your Mac’s internal storage before selling it, so you don’t give your bank details away with it. And much more.
Apple appears to be maintaining MRT, but hasn’t changed detection signatures in XProtect for 9 months. What does this mean for the security of macOS and its users?
Apple has just pushed an update to its malware removal tool, MRT, for macOS, bringing its version number […]
Apple has just pushed an update to the ‘Yara’ data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number […]
Recommended for all users: new updates since the app was last run should now be shown in red text.
More accurate datestamping in its reports, and a default filename which incorporates date and time. Worthwhile for all users.
Not as large as the previous update to Mojave, it still replaces a lot of apps but Apple documents almost no changes. Here’s a summary of the detail.
More work to be done before your migration is fully complete: check your workflows, key security settings, disk health, licensing, backups.
Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 157, […]
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