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SilentKnight and SystHist updates now check XProtect Remediator

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Strongly recommended for all running macOS Catalina and later, these now work fully with XProtect Remediator, showing its current version, updates, etc.

June 17, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Updates for Ventura and M2 Macs: SilentKnight, LockRattler and SystHist

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Although intended primarily for anyone running Ventura or using an M2 Mac, they should be good for all users.

June 10, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

How should security data updates work?

What’s normal for patterns of security data and macOS updates? How to recognise the pathological, which could reflect a security failure.

April 15, 2022 Macs, Technology

Does your Mac keep installing the same MRT updates?

Some are reporting that recent MRT updates have been installed 15 times. If your Mac affected? Does it keep installing the same security data updates?

April 12, 2022 Macs, Technology

The silence of the BoMs: why you don’t know what macOS updates

Before Catalina, each macOS update wrote a full transcript of all it installed to a BoM file, which you can inspect. That stopped, without any substitute.

September 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

New versions of LockRattler and SystHist are now available

LockRattler 4.31 and SystHist 1.15 prepare for the release of Monterey, and include minor fixes for earlier versions of macOS as well.

September 3, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

SystHist now works fully with Catalina and Big Sur

New version can display contents of all system updates for Catalina and Big Sur’s boot volume group, at last.

November 3, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Useless information

You can find out which EFI version your Mac is running, but how do you know whether that’s current, or old and vulnerable?

July 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

SystHist version 1.12 now resizes text

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Text in the centre view listing updates and installations can now be set to 4 to 24 points in size.

June 25, 2019 Macs, Technology

Updates to LockRattler and SystHist for auto-updating and Catalina

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Adds the new automatic system for checking whether an update is available, and downloaded it when it is. Also addresses minor issues with Catalina beta 1.

June 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

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