macOS

FUSE for macOS: Why a popular open source library became closed source and commercially licensed

Interview Maintainer: 'Most companies were reluctant to support the project their product depends on because it is available for free'

OSes16 Dec 2019 | 117

Tricky VPN-busting bug lurks in iOS, Android, Linux distros, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, say university eggheads

OpenVPN, WireGuard, IKEv2/IPSec also vulnerable to tampering flaw, we're told

OSes06 Dec 2019 | 27

Lazarus group goes back to the Apple orchard with new macOS trojan

In-memory malware a first for suspected Nork hacking crew

OSes05 Dec 2019 | 10

PSA: Turning off silent macros in Office for Mac leaves users wide open to silent macro attacks

Microsoft seems a bit hazy on what 'disable' actually means

OSes05 Nov 2019 | 33

You'e yping i wong: macOS Catalina stops Twitter desktop app from accepting B, L, M, R, and T in passwords

Oher sofwae ikey hi y egession in uggy opeaing syse

OSes30 Oct 2019 | 79

While Apple fanbois rage at Catalina, iGiant quietly drops iOS and macOS security patches

RCEs and all sorts of other vulns plugged, so get installing

OSes30 Oct 2019 | 13

Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina

Move to bin? Or cancel? There are more options on this version of macOS, but it's still a PITA

OSes23 Oct 2019 | 194

How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still

Comment Devs lament 'trash fire' 'Windows Vista-like' release

OSes11 Oct 2019 | 163

MacOS wakes to a bright Catalina sunrise – and broken Adobe apps

Still, it could be worse, you could be one of cloud slinger's Venezuelan customers

OSes08 Oct 2019 | 76

MacOS 'Catalina' 10.15 comes packed with exclusive security fixes – gee, thanks, Apple

New OS squashes bugs, older versions may have to wait

OSes07 Oct 2019 | 22

Jamf emits mystery security fix for Pro macOS, iOS wrangler, keeps admins in dark by censoring chatter

iAdmins steaming over handling of 'critical' patch rollout

OSes01 Oct 2019 | 7

Got a pre-A12 iPhone? Love jailbreaks? Happy Friday! 'Unpatchable tethered Boot ROM exploit' released

Coder claims iThings older than two years can be unlocked from Apple's clutches

OSes27 Sep 2019 | 40

macOS? More like mac-woe-ess: Google Chrome slip-up trips up SIP-less Apple Macs

Fresh code gives file systems a /var-sectomy – see inside for a manual fix

OSes25 Sep 2019 | 68

Hands up who likes gaming! Hands up who likes gaming on Macs! Er, OK. Well, Parallels has an update for you

DirectX 11 and Catalina support will please, the price may not

OSes13 Aug 2019 | 11

It's 2019 and you can still pwn an iPhone with a website: Apple patches up iOS, Mac bugs in July security hole dump

20 WebKit flaws among latest batch of bug fixes

OSes23 Jul 2019 | 13

Stop using that MacBook Pro RIGHT NOW, says Uncle Sam: Loyalists suffer burns, smoke inhalation and worse – those crappy keyboards

Getting dodgy batteries fixed can take up to THREE weeks

OSes28 Jun 2019 | 169

Malware spotted doing unspeakable, filthy things to infected Macs – injecting Bing results into Google searches

Or so claim these security bods after clocking proxy-installing fake Flash plugin

OSes04 Jun 2019 | 24

Apple kills iTunes, preps pricey Mac Pro, gives iPad its own OS – plus: That $999 monitor stand

We sat through 150 minutes of WWDC keynote so you didn't have to suffer

OSes03 Jun 2019 | 251

Legacy app whitelist can be abused to bypass latest macOS security defenses, expert warns

Three words to ruin an Apple engineer's day: 'Patrick Wardle disclosure'

OSes03 Jun 2019 | 9

Don't get the pitchforks yet, Apple devs: macOS third-party application clampdown probably not as bad as rumored

Analysis The v10.15 will bring tighter security, the escape hatch should remain open for now

OSes20 Mar 2019 | 46

Level up Mac security, and say game over to malware? System alerts plus Apple game engine equals antivirus package

RSA Wise Wardle waves wand, whacks wily worms which work without Windows

OSes06 Mar 2019 | 13

Bad news: Google drops macOS zero-day after Apple misses bug deadline. Good news: It's fiddly to exploit

Step one: Run malware on your victim's machine. Step two: Mount some storage...

OSes05 Mar 2019 | 20

At least Sony offered a t-shirt, says macOS flaw finder: Bug bounties now for Macs if you want this 0-day, Apple

Vid Cupertino's tight-wads called out by fella who found password, private key leak

OSes07 Feb 2019 | 41

A picture tells a 1,000 words. Pixels pwn up to 5 million nerds: Crims use steganography to stash bad code in ads

Apple fans lured into installing malware via crafty JavaScript

OSes24 Jan 2019 | 42

Plug in your iPhone, iPad, iPod, fire up the App Store: You have new Apple patches to install

Open the door, get on the floor – not so fast if you've an iPhone 4

OSes23 Jan 2019 | 20

It's December 2018, and a rogue application can still tell your Apple Mac: I'm your El Capitan now

iOS, macOS, tvOS, Safari, and anyone for some reason using iTunes on Windows – get patching

OSes06 Dec 2018 | 11

Did you hear? There's a critical security hole that lets web pages hijack computers. Of course it's Adobe Flash's fault

The internet's screen door strikes again – so get patching

OSes20 Nov 2018 | 42

Macs to Linux fans: Stop right there, Penguinista scum, that's not macOS. Go on, git outta here

In the market for a MacBook Air, eh Linus?

OSes06 Nov 2018 | 210

Apple macOS Mojave: There's goth mode but developers will have to wait for the juicy stuff

Review Oh, and we have Piles, I mean Stacks

OSes04 Oct 2018 | 66

Apple's dark-horse macOS Mojave is out (and it's already pwned)

Wardle claims to topple privacy protections in new OS – which comes with security fixes

OSes24 Sep 2018 | 45

Kernel sanders: Webroot vuln creates route to root Macs

Patched flaw hard to exploit, but serious once you get there, warn infoseccers

OSes14 Sep 2018 | 9

Trend Micro tools tossed from Apple's Mac App Store after spewing fans' browser histories

Updated Data caught being siphoned off to outside server

OSes10 Sep 2018 | 32

Core blimey! Apple macOS update lifts boot from MacBook Pro neck

High Sierra patch reduces performance throttling for this year's tardy laptops

OSes24 Jul 2018 | 36

Chrome sends old Macs on permanent Safari: Browser bricks itself

Google puts Mavericks on a cargo plane outta Hong Kong

OSes26 Jun 2018 | 67

Hardened Azure logins, softened containers, leaky encrypted images on Macs – and more

Roundup Plus: Crypto-cash and keeping up with McAfee

OSes23 Jun 2018 | 8

Apple: No currency mining for you in our App Store thank you

If you want to mine, do it in someone else's cloud

OSes11 Jun 2018 | 14

A Spectre flaw solution, Cloudflare blips, a bank cyber-heist in Canada, and more in infosec land

Roundup Also, the SEC takes aim at another shady ICO

OSes02 Jun 2018 | 3

Apple debugs debugger, nukes pesky vulns in iOS, WebKit, macOS

Cook's Cupertino crew corrects coding cockups

OSes25 Apr 2018 | 18

Apple's magical quality engineering strikes again: You may want to hold off that macOS High Sierra update...

Because 10.13.4 is seemingly unstable and performing poorly

OSes20 Apr 2018 | 66

Apple whispers farewell to macOS Server

All the bits that make it a server are being deprecated

OSes29 Jan 2018 | 71

It's 2018 and your Macs, iPhones can be pwned by playing evil music

Meanwhile, HomePod inches closer to actually shipping, allegedly

OSes24 Jan 2018 | 32

Stop us if you've heard this one: Apple's password protection in macOS can be thwarted

Developers (again) find preferences hole (again) that bypasses login box (again)

OSes10 Jan 2018 | 45

Apple macOS so secure some apps can't be easily deleted

Welcome to the Hotel California security model

OSes03 Jan 2018 | 34

Google's Project Zero reveals Apple jailbreak exploit

Holy Moley! iOS and MacOS were wholly holey

OSes12 Dec 2017 | 34

Apple gets around to patching all the other High Sierra security holes

Another week, another Mac patch to install

OSes07 Dec 2017 | 11

Apple sprays down bug-ridden iOS 11 with more fixes

Hasn't been a great few weeks for Cupertino devs

OSes04 Dec 2017 | 59

As Apple fixes macOS root password hole, here's what went wrong

Code dive While you patch your Mac, take a look at what upset the Apple cart this week

OSes29 Nov 2017 | 75

Pro tip: You can log into macOS High Sierra as root with no password

Updated Apple, this is Windows 95 bad – but there is a workaround to kill the bug

OSes28 Nov 2017 | 149

Dumb bug of the week: Apple's macOS reveals your encrypted drive's password in the hint box

Video High Sierra update derided by devs as half-baked

OSes05 Oct 2017 | 85

macOS High Sierra more like 'Cry Sierra' for Mac-wielding beta testers

Early issues arise with new version of OS X 10.13

OSes20 Sep 2017 | 40

It's 2017 – and your Mac, iPad, iPhone can all be pwned by an e-book

Seven Apple updates, because it's not like you had anything else to patch today

OSes16 May 2017 | 33

Mondays suck. So why not spend yours playing with an original Mac and games in your browser

Welcome (back) to Macintosh!

OSes17 Apr 2017 | 31

Is your iOS app piling on weight? Blame Xcode 8.3: We shed light on Apple's bloat riddle

Developers puzzled by binaries' bitcode explosion

OSes31 Mar 2017 | 7

Microsoft slaps Apple Gatekeeper-like controls on Windows 10: Install only apps from store

Configurable switch on software spotted in latest Insider build

OSes28 Feb 2017 | 68

Apple's macOS is the safer choice – but not for the reason you think

MWC Eugene Kaspersky looks forward to a new darker dawn

OSes27 Feb 2017 | 25

Apple weans itself off Intel with 'more ARM chips' for future Macs

Cook bakes up another Chipzilla-free component for fruity computers – report

OSes01 Feb 2017 | 39

What links macOS, iOS, Safari, tvOS, watchOS? They all need patching

Apple squashes a bunch of security bugs, so get installing

OSes23 Jan 2017 | 4

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FUSE for macOS: Why a popular open source library became closed source and commercially licensed

Tricky VPN-busting bug lurks in iOS, Android, Linux distros, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, say university eggheads

Lazarus group goes back to the Apple orchard with new macOS trojan

PSA: Turning off silent macros in Office for Mac leaves users wide open to silent macro attacks

You'e yping i wong: macOS Catalina stops Twitter desktop app from accepting B, L, M, R, and T in passwords

While Apple fanbois rage at Catalina, iGiant quietly drops iOS and macOS security patches

Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina

How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still

MacOS wakes to a bright Catalina sunrise – and broken Adobe apps

MacOS 'Catalina' 10.15 comes packed with exclusive security fixes – gee, thanks, Apple

Jamf emits mystery security fix for Pro macOS, iOS wrangler, keeps admins in dark by censoring chatter

Got a pre-A12 iPhone? Love jailbreaks? Happy Friday! 'Unpatchable tethered Boot ROM exploit' released

macOS? More like mac-woe-ess: Google Chrome slip-up trips up SIP-less Apple Macs

Hands up who likes gaming! Hands up who likes gaming on Macs! Er, OK. Well, Parallels has an update for you

It's 2019 and you can still pwn an iPhone with a website: Apple patches up iOS, Mac bugs in July security hole dump

Stop using that MacBook Pro RIGHT NOW, says Uncle Sam: Loyalists suffer burns, smoke inhalation and worse – those crappy keyboards

Malware spotted doing unspeakable, filthy things to infected Macs – injecting Bing results into Google searches

Apple kills iTunes, preps pricey Mac Pro, gives iPad its own OS – plus: That $999 monitor stand

Legacy app whitelist can be abused to bypass latest macOS security defenses, expert warns

Don't get the pitchforks yet, Apple devs: macOS third-party application clampdown probably not as bad as rumored

Level up Mac security, and say game over to malware? System alerts plus Apple game engine equals antivirus package

Bad news: Google drops macOS zero-day after Apple misses bug deadline. Good news: It's fiddly to exploit

At least Sony offered a t-shirt, says macOS flaw finder: Bug bounties now for Macs if you want this 0-day, Apple

A picture tells a 1,000 words. Pixels pwn up to 5 million nerds: Crims use steganography to stash bad code in ads

Plug in your iPhone, iPad, iPod, fire up the App Store: You have new Apple patches to install

It's December 2018, and a rogue application can still tell your Apple Mac: I'm your El Capitan now

Did you hear? There's a critical security hole that lets web pages hijack computers. Of course it's Adobe Flash's fault

Macs to Linux fans: Stop right there, Penguinista scum, that's not macOS. Go on, git outta here

Apple emits its much-anticipated updates to Mac, AppleTV, and iOS

Mac users burned after Nuance drops Dragon speech to text software

The secret history of Apple's Stacks

Apple macOS Mojave: There's goth mode but developers will have to wait for the juicy stuff

Apple's dark-horse macOS Mojave is out (and it's already pwned)

Kernel sanders: Webroot vuln creates route to root Macs

Trend Micro tools tossed from Apple's Mac App Store after spewing fans' browser histories

Core blimey! Apple macOS update lifts boot from MacBook Pro neck

Chrome sends old Macs on permanent Safari: Browser bricks itself

Hardened Azure logins, softened containers, leaky encrypted images on Macs – and more

Apple: No currency mining for you in our App Store thank you

A Spectre flaw solution, Cloudflare blips, a bank cyber-heist in Canada, and more in infosec land

Apple debugs debugger, nukes pesky vulns in iOS, WebKit, macOS

Apple's magical quality engineering strikes again: You may want to hold off that macOS High Sierra update...

Apple whispers farewell to macOS Server

It's 2018 and your Macs, iPhones can be pwned by playing evil music

Stop us if you've heard this one: Apple's password protection in macOS can be thwarted

Apple macOS so secure some apps can't be easily deleted

Google's Project Zero reveals Apple jailbreak exploit

Apple gets around to patching all the other High Sierra security holes

Apple sprays down bug-ridden iOS 11 with more fixes

As Apple fixes macOS root password hole, here's what went wrong

Pro tip: You can log into macOS High Sierra as root with no password

Dumb bug of the week: Apple's macOS reveals your encrypted drive's password in the hint box

macOS High Sierra more like 'Cry Sierra' for Mac-wielding beta testers

It's 2017 – and your Mac, iPad, iPhone can all be pwned by an e-book

Mondays suck. So why not spend yours playing with an original Mac and games in your browser

Is your iOS app piling on weight? Blame Xcode 8.3: We shed light on Apple's bloat riddle

Microsoft slaps Apple Gatekeeper-like controls on Windows 10: Install only apps from store

Apple's macOS is the safer choice – but not for the reason you think

Apple weans itself off Intel with 'more ARM chips' for future Macs

What links macOS, iOS, Safari, tvOS, watchOS? They all need patching

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