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Last Week on My Mac: POPSS, vulnerability by documentation

While we were getting worried about Signal’s notifications leak, POPSS was quietly making almost every major operating system vulnerable – because of poor documentation.

May 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

What do Security Updates actually fix?

Frustrated by the lack of information in Apple’s security release notes? You’re not alone. Over the last year, they have become almost worthless.

May 5, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Insights through a vulnerability

High Sierra 10.13.4 may have stopped leakage of APFS encryption passphrases, but that is only a small part of an accident chain going back many years.

April 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

Encryption passphrases are still left in logs: how Apple abuses its unified log

I wrote yesterday that macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 finally fixes the leakage of APFS encryption passphrases into the […]

March 31, 2018 Macs, Technology

macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 fixes APFS encryption password disclosure bug

The latest update to High Sierra, bringing it to 10.13.4, does fix the bug discovered by Sarah Edwards […]

March 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Should Apple have warned users of a vulnerability?

Did Apple keep quiet for more than 3 months about the leak of encryption passphrases into High Sierra’s log files?

March 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 still leaks encryption passwords in plain text

I previously described a serious vulnerability in macOS High Sierra versions to 10.13.1 which was discovered by Sarah […]

March 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Is the unified log private, or a vulnerability?

How good is the new unified log’s privacy? Does it live up to Apple’s goal of designing privacy into the system, or is it easily beaten? And how did passwords leak into the log?

March 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

Another gaping security hole in High Sierra APFS disk encryption (updated)

Congratulations to Sarah Edwards for unearthing a security vulnerability in macOS 10.13 High Sierra, in which copies of […]

March 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

Supplemental Update for macOS High Sierra 10.13.3: is there more to it?

Apple has today released another Supplemental Update to macOS High Sierra 10.13.3, apparently just to fix a security […]

February 19, 2018 Macs, Technology

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