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Ex-NSA hacker, ex-Apple researcher launch 'DoubleYou' to protect Apple devices

An ex-NSA hacker and an ex-Apple researcher are launching “DoubleYou,” a startup that aims to help other makers of cybersecurity products to better protect Apple devices. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai for TechCrunch: ‎ Their startup is called DoubleYou, the name taken from the initials of its co-founder, Patrick Wardle, who worked at the U.S. National Security Agency between 2006 and 2008.…

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PSA: Update your Mac to macOS 11.3 immediately to protect against 'worst hack in years'

PSA: Update your Mac to macOS 11.3 immediately to protect against ‘worst hack in years’

Apple on Monday released macOS 11.3 and, if you have not yet done so, you should update your Mac to macOS 11.3 immediately to protect against “worst hack in years.” Patrick Wardle, a former NSA analyst and a macOS security expert, has described it as one of the worst security issues to have ever hit the Apple operating system. macOS 11 Big Sur Thomas Brewster for Forbes: Malicious hackers can…

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Another Mac bug lets hackers invisibly click security prompts

Another Mac bug lets hackers invisibly click security prompts

Andy Greenberg for Wired:

Exploiting a bug in Mojave, [ex-NSA security researcher Patrick] Wardle has shown yet again that any piece of automated malware can exploit a feature of MacOS known as “synthetic clicks” to breeze through security prompts, allowing the attacker to gain access to the computer’s camera, microphone, location data, contacts, messages, and even in some cases to alter its…

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Apple updates XProtect to combat 'Windows' exploits on Mac machines

Apple updates XProtect to combat ‘Windows’ exploits on Mac machines

[cfsp key=”getamac.jpg”]”Apple has upgraded its XProtect security software to be able to detect Windows files which may be a threat to Mac users,” Charlie Osborne reports for ZDNet. “According to security researcher Patrick Wardle, the update will now detect Windows Portable Executable (.PE) files and binary segments.”

“XProtect is a signature-based system and is linked to the iPad and iPhone…

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Invisible mouse clicks let hackers burrow deep into an already-infected Mac

“One way operating system developers try to protect a computers’ secrets from probing hackers is with an appeal to the human at the keyboard. By giving the user a choice to ‘allow’ or ‘deny’ a program’s access to sensitive data or features, the operating system can create a checkpoint that halts malware while letting innocent applications through,” Andy Greenberg writes for Wired. “But former NSA…

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Patrick Wardle: How to break, bypass and dismantle macOS firewall products

Patrick Wardle: How to break, bypass and dismantle macOS firewall products

“Taking aim at the status-quo of macOS firewalls, researcher Patrick Wardle has made his case for Apple and third-party security firms to beef up their protections,” Tom Spring reports for Threatpost. “At a session here at Black Hat 2018, Wardle, chief research officer at Digita Security and founder of Mac security company Objective-See, showed how easy it is to break, bypass and dismantle macOS…

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'Disappearing' Signal messages are stored indefinitely on Macs

‘Disappearing’ Signal messages are stored indefinitely on Macs

“When it comes to protecting your messages and calls from snoops, many security experts point to the Signal app as one of the best options out there (and we at Motherboard generally agree),” Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports for Motherboard. “But Signal isn’t perfect, and if you use the desktop client on a Mac, you might want to be careful about the app’s notifications—they may expose your…

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