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Things that go bump in SilentKnight: serious security failures

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You may be surprised to learn that SIP or XProtect are disabled, that the SSV isn’t working, or that your security systems are way out of date.

January 26, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: When the Internet caught fire

Last week, most of the servers around the world were found to have a serious vulnerability which is trivial to exploit. Even iCloud was affected. How does it affect you?

December 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Silence isn’t golden

As Apple silently drops Mojave’s support, it releases a security update to iOS 12, which was originally released a week before Mojave. And its entire AirPort range also seems unsupported now.

September 26, 2021 Macs, Technology

Summary of important security fixes in macOS

A lot has changed in recent versions of macOS over the last couple of weeks. This is a […]

May 5, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released Big Sur 11.3.1 update (updated)

Apple has just released a surprise update to Big Sur, bringing it to version 11.3.1. According to its […]

May 3, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released Big Sur 11.3 update

Apple has just released the update to Big Sur 11.3. It’s huge: for M1 Macs, it weighs in […]

April 26, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released Big Sur 11.2.3 (updated)

Apple has this evening released yet another ‘patch’ update to Big Sur, bringing it to version 11.2.3. This […]

March 8, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Check whether your Mac’s sudo is vulnerable with Mints 1.1

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Now checks whether the sudo vulnerability has been patched, and improves Spotlight search testing too.

February 22, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

What’s changed in Big Sur 11.2.1?

The surprise minor update to macOS 11.2.1 is smaller in size than the 11.2 update: around 2.4 GB […]

February 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Fessing up

If you’re using Catalina or Big Sur, you should by now only be obtaining apps from four sources: […]

January 3, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

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