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myXProtectStatus
myXProtectStatus – A drop down status menulet for XProtect, showing date, version, and threats protected against. Written in bash, and wrapped with Platypus, it is informational only, so don’t ask me to add some menu item to do something, it just reports. … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, OS X, Scripting, Security
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Advanced Safe Downloads List Tips and Tricks
So I submitted a hint for getting info about the Safe Downloads protection list, then I made a widget, now delving deeper into Safe Downloads list and the command line Let’s look at the BOM for the update: /Library/Preferences/com.apple.ReportMessages.domains /Library/Preferences/com.apple.ReportMessages.v2.domains /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.plist /System/Library/CoreServices/MRTAgent.app /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.mrt.uiagent.plist … Continue reading
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Safe Downloads List Info Widget
UPDATE: The AUTOUPDATE code only works as root and so is not useful in the Dashboard environment! This has been removed from the widget. So I slapped together a widget for the Safe Downloads commands I post at OSXHints: Safe … Continue reading
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App Store tips and tricks for sysadmins
App Store Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for the SysAdmin App Store, oh, App Store, like all Apple products you are made first for consumers and in time maybe you will be ready for corporate deployment, but for now, here’s some … Continue reading
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Tearing apart OpinionSpy
Updated: I’ve linked text files of string dumps to the binaries thoughout the article, I suppose not everyone wants to install and run the code to find out themselves! Another OS X malware media darling is out there, but it’s … Continue reading
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Tearing Apart OSX/RSPlug-F
OK… I might be a bit late to the party (and Conficker is grabbing all the headlines) but there were some interesting things I found looking at the headline grabbing trojan OSX/RSPlug-F. Thanks to the effervescent Graham Cluley for his … Continue reading
Office 2008 12.01 Update almost does it
So the Office 2008 12.01 updater came out, it’s got a whole lot of packages for each app and component with postflight scripts written in Python to clean up all the permissions: Mar 12 15:33:00 brunerd runner[8556]: postflight[8773]: setting ownership/permissions … Continue reading
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ARD Security Awareness (Standard User can run root commands)
Did you know a Standard user can run commands as root via ARD? This seems really odd doesn’t it? Why would this be necessary? The thing that gets me is how in Tiger you had to explicitly grant each user … Continue reading
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