macos
A {swiftr} Brief Interlude While Awaiting {cdcfluview} CRAN Checks
My {cdcfluview} package started tossing erros on CRAN just over a week ago when the CDC added an extra parameter to one of the hidden API endpoints that the package wraps. After ...
Shlayer Strikes Again Through Zero-Day in MacOS 11.3
Apple this week revealed that its new macOS 11.3 update comes with a fix for a critical vulnerability – one that hackers actively exploited with Shlayer malware that can sidestep Apple defenses ...
A Small macOS (Big Sur+) to Extract Indicators of Compromise
There’s a semi-infrequent-but-frequent-enough-to-be-annoying manual task at $DAYJOB that involves extracting a particular set of strings (identifiable by a fairly benign set of regular expressions) from various interactive text sources (so, not static ...
Making macOS Universal Apps in Swift with Universal Golang Static Libraries
There are a plethora of amazingly useful Golang libraries, and it has been possible for quite some time to use Go libraries with Swift. The advent of the release of the new ...
Avoiding The mdls Command Line Round Trip With swiftr::swift_function()
The last post showed how to work with the macOS mdls command line XML output, but with {swiftr} we can avoid the command line round trip by bridging the low-level Spotlight API ...
Quick Hit: Processing macOS Application Metadata Weirdly Fast with mdls and R
(reminder: Quick Hits have minimal explanatory blathering, but I can elaborate on anything if folks submit a comment). I’m playing around with Screen Time on xOS again and noticed mdls (macOS command ...
Help Your Mac Stand Between The Darkness And The Light with GreyWatch
Greynoise helps security teams focus on potential threats by reducing the noise from logs, alerts, and SIEMs. They constantly watch for badly behaving internet hosts, keep track of the benign ones, and ...
Retrieve Process Run-time Architecture on Apple Silicon Macs On The Command Line with `archinfo`
Apple M1/Apple Silicon/arm64 macOS can run x86_64 programs via Rosetta and most M1 systems currently (~March 2021) very likely run a mix of x86_64 and arm64 processes. Activity Monitor can show the ...
SecurID Innovations Help Organizations Protect and Optimize Workforces
By taking a phased approach to digital transformation, organizations can embrace cloud innovations, stay relevant, and maintain the assurances of connecting to on-premises applications ...
Card Skimmers Powered by Chip Cards, Silver Sparrow Mac Malware, Accellion Zero-Days
This week co-host Kevin Johnson joins Tom Eston to discuss new card skimmers found in the wild, the Accellion zero-days, and a new type of Mac malware called “Silver Sparrow”. ** Links ...
