With the release of macOS 14 less than 2 weeks away, just what is it offering to make it worthwhile upgrading? Some personal thoughts.
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Avoid using encrypted sparse bundles for the moment, as you can’t change their password. Apple Encrypted Archives aren’t ready for normal use either.
Apple released its first update to its new behavioural security protection in XProtect Behaviour Service on 8 August, and again on 1 September. Here are the details.
When Sonoma is released in the next month or two, Apple will be able to release RSRs for two versions of macOS. What will it do?
A sandboxed and isolation version of Viable designed for security and other researchers, now updated to match features in the latest release of Viable.
Multiple requests for a keychain password, login password mismatch, broken keychains, expired certificates, and using the Data Protection keychain.
How can you tell whether a request for a keychain password is genuine? What about a regular request for password authentication?
For Finder aliases, writing entries in the log, checking file integrity, comparing extended attributes, normalising text to Unicode Forms, and running the same checks as SilentKnight.
Is your Mac likely to receive firmware updates in future? How can you check whether its firmware is up to date? What happens in Sonoma?
SystHist reveals full details of all macOS installations and updates, plus security updates. New version works with Sonoma, as well as reporting RSRs.
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