You might recall that the usefulness of Apple’s Gatekeeper technology which is meant to keep you safe from viruses, malware and the like was questioned by a researcher. Supposedly, it was patched in the last round of OS X updates by Apple. But Patrick Wardle who found the original issue, has looked at Apple’s fixes and had this to say:
Even on a fully-patched OS X 10.11.2 system, Gatekeeper is trivial to bypass
Lovely. I’m sure that makes Mac users feel safe.
Here’s what’s worse. During a presentation at the Virus Bulletin conference in Prague last October, Wardle gave attendees the info unpatched vulnerabilities in Gatekeeper. That means that the bad guys now have the means to bypass Gatekeeper to pwn Macs everywhere. Now he’s also given this info to Apple, and one hopes that they’re working on a real fix for this. In the meantime, Wardle promises a fix of his own. After all, if Apple won’t protect users of their OS, someone has to.
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Apple Gatekeeper Still Not Effective Says Security Researcher
You might recall that the usefulness of Apple’s Gatekeeper technology which is meant to keep you safe from viruses, malware and the like was questioned by a researcher. Supposedly, it was patched in the last round of OS X updates by Apple. But Patrick Wardle who found the original issue, has looked at Apple’s fixes and had this to say:
Even on a fully-patched OS X 10.11.2 system, Gatekeeper is trivial to bypass
Lovely. I’m sure that makes Mac users feel safe.
Here’s what’s worse. During a presentation at the Virus Bulletin conference in Prague last October, Wardle gave attendees the info unpatched vulnerabilities in Gatekeeper. That means that the bad guys now have the means to bypass Gatekeeper to pwn Macs everywhere. Now he’s also given this info to Apple, and one hopes that they’re working on a real fix for this. In the meantime, Wardle promises a fix of his own. After all, if Apple won’t protect users of their OS, someone has to.
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