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Update Your Mac Right Now to Avoid This Massive Security Bug Share Photo: Stephen Lam, Getty Images To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. If you haven’t already, you should update your Mac right now. A recently patched zero-day vulnerability in macOS operating systems has been allowing hackers to bypass much of Apple’s security protocols and deploy malware on an unknown amount of...

minute read Share this article: A variant of Mac No. 1 threat Shlayer since January already has been exploiting the vulnerability, which allows payloads to go unchecked through key OS security features. Apple patched a  zero-day vulnerability in its MacOS that can bypass critical anti-malware capabilities and which a variant of the notorious Mac threat Shlayer adware dropper already has been exploiting for several months. Security researcher Cedric Owens first discovered the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021–30657 and patched in macOS 11.3, an update dropped by Apple on Monda...

Bug that let malicious files slip past defenses now fixed in Big Sur 11.3 Share Copy Apple has released macOS 11.3, fixing a serious flaw that allowed an attacker to sneak malicious files past the operating system's Gatekeeper security mechanism. Gatekeeper is one of the primary macOS defenses against the installation of malware, explained Cedric Owens, the security researcher who found the bug, in a message to The Register. The vulnerability, he said, lets an attacker rig a malicious file so it won't get blocked by Gatekeeper when a user tries to open it. He considers it to be one o...

...when run, it simply pops Calculator.app. Outline This is our 100th blog post …and it’s a doozy! But first, go update your macOS systems to 11.3, as it contains a patch for a massive bug that affects all recent versions of macOS…a bug that is the topic of this blog post. This bug trivially bypasses many core Apple security mechanisms, leaving Mac users at grave risk: opened → owned already exploiting it in the wild as an 0day. Yikes! Apple patched the bug as CVE-2021-30657, noting "a malicious application may bypass Gatekeeper checks" The security researcher Cedric Owens uncovered t...

Jamf Announces Same-Day Support for Apple’s Latest Operating System Releases April 26, 2021 13:13 ET | Source: Jamf Jamf Minneapolis, Minnesota, UNITED STATES MINNEAPOLIS, April 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jamf (NASDAQ: JAMF), the standard in Apple Enterprise Management, today announced that it is prepared with same-day key feature support and compatibility for Apple’s latest operating system releases, iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, macOS 11.3 and tvOS 14.5 as they become available. Same-day support is one of the most important promises Jamf makes to...