Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Disable Find My Mac by Modifiying Nvram Configuration

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`When Find My Mac (FMM) is enabled, it writes information into the Mac's nvram. This enables the configuration to persist across OS-lev...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Exceptions.plist: interesting tweaks, including Gatekeeper forced opt-in

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The Exceptions.plist is quite interesting: defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/Exceptions.plist ...

BIOS malware

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Interesting recent developments on the BIOS malware front. MITRE delivered Copernicus and this blackhat talk , and Dragos Ruiu is on the t...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

OS X XProtect

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XProtect is Apple’s built-in AV system for OS X. I took at look at it on 10.8 (Mountain Lion). Virus definitions are stored in a simple fo...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Python: object container's __str__ calls __repr__ for the objects it contains

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This should look familiar: In [6]: class NewShiny(object): def __str__(self): return "something readable" ...: I...

OS X file types: Uniform Type Identifiers (UTI)

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As a follow on from the post about MIME types and default handlers on OS X , here's a bit more about types in general. Apple explains i...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

OpenBSM auditd on OS X: these are the logs you are looking for

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OpenBSM is an implementation of the now decades old Sun Basic Security Module (BSM) API and file format, written for OS X Panther (10.3) by...
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