The searchpartyd process in macOS is an integral part of Apple’s innovative location tracking system, introduced with macOS 10.15 Catalina, iOS 13, and iPadOS 13.1. This daemon is a cornersto…| applehelpwriter.com
If you’re not ready to upgrade to macOS Catalina yet – and there’s good reasons why you might want to hold off – you might also be tired of seeing the red update badge in the System Prefe…| applehelpwriter.com
The sshd-keygen-wrapper tool, located within macOS Privacy settings, has garnered attention from users, particularly when they discover it in the Full Disk Access section of their Privacy preferenc…| applehelpwriter.com
With Apple’s signature developer event WWDC 2019 just around the corner, it’s a good time to think about your Apple-related Twitter feeds from an IT and security-related pe…| applehelpwriter.com
The adware plague on macOS continues, and if you’re one of the thousands that have caught something unwanted when you downloaded some other program, this post should help. I’ll explain what My…| applehelpwriter.com
Browser extensions are a staple of almost every user’s set up. Even in managed environments, users are often able to install extensions or ‘Add Ons’ without authorisation when these are source…| applehelpwriter.com
Last month, researchers at Kaspersky reported on a Lazarus APT campaign targeting both macOS and Windows users involved in the financial sector, particularly those using cryptocurrency exchang…| applehelpwriter.com
Do Macs get malware? Can my Mac get infected by a virus? Do I need AV software for my Mac? These are questions I hear a lot, but the answers that come from many so-called Apple Mac gurus are o…| applehelpwriter.com
Resources for learning malware analysis and reverse engineering abound for the Windows platform and PE files, but by comparison there’s very little literature or tutorials for those who want t…| applehelpwriter.com
If you’re suffering from error messages like the one above after upgrading to Mojave, welcome to macOS’s new “User Data Protections”. In this post we’ll explain what they are and how to deal w…| applehelpwriter.com
