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The Apple-in-the-enterprise story continues to unfold, this week with Jamf’s announced plans to acquire mobile threat detection and response company ZecOps.

Already consumer-simple, Jamf becomes government secure

Jamf will likely reveal more about the motivations behind the deal at its JNUC event for Apple admins, which begins tomorrow. The purchase is the latest move by the Apple-focused enterprise MDM provider to supplement device management with an increasingly effective set of tools to bolster device security.

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Kaspersky Security

September 7, 2022 admin

Vulnerability in Zoom for macOS | Kaspersky official blog

Credit to Author: Enoch Root| Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 20:24:06 +0000

At the DEF CON 30 conference, Patrick Wardle spoke about a new vulnerability in the Zoom client for Apple computers.

ComputerWorld Independent

September 2, 2022 admin

Apple wasn’t fooling when it said it wanted to make Macs more secure

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 04:55:00 -0700

When Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering last year said, “We have a level of malware on the Mac that we don’t find acceptable,” he apparently really meant it. And Apple seems to be doing about something about it.

Apple is giant taking steps to secure the Mac

Federighi characterized Apple as being in an enduring battle against malware on the Mac. He also explained that between May 2020 and May 2021 the company identified 130 types of Mac malware that infected 300,000 systems.

Given the Mac’s reputation for security, that may seem counter intuitive, but maintaining a secure platform requires constant watchfulness.

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MalwareBytes Security

August 18, 2022 admin

Urgent update for macOS and iOS! Two actively exploited zero-days fixed

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

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Tags: macOS

Tags: iOS

Tags: CVE-2022-32894

Tags: CVE-2022-32893

Tags: kernel privileges

Tags: WebKit

Tags: actively exploited

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Apple has released emergency security updates to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities previously exploited by attackers to hack iPhones, iPads, or Macs.

ComputerWorld Independent

August 15, 2022 admin

What is USB Restricted Mode in macOS Ventura, and why do you want it?

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 06:35:00 -0700

Once upon a time, one attack vector for industrial sabotage consisted of exfiltrating data from Macs using a standard-issue USB storage card. Researchers have also shown that it’s possible to hijack computers with malware-infested cables. It’s a jungle out there, so Apple has toughened up (Apple Silicon) Mac protection with USB Restricted Mode.

What is USB Restricted Mode?

Beginning with macOS Ventura, the new layer of protection comes in the form of USB Restricted mode, which should provide a little reassurance to enterprise IT and is enabled by default.

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Kaspersky Security

August 1, 2022 admin

How Apple’s Lockdown Mode works | Kaspersky official blog

Credit to Author: Enoch Root| Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 15:41:27 +0000

How Lockdown Mode works on Apple devices, who needs it and why.

MalwareBytes Security

July 14, 2022 admin

Endpoint security for Mac: 3 best practices

Credit to Author: Bill Cozens| Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 14:35:10 +0000

In this post, we break down three endpoint security for Mac best practices to help you prevent phishing attacks, DDoS attacks, and much more.

The post Endpoint security for Mac: 3 best practices appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Microsoft Security

July 13, 2022 admin

Uncovering a macOS App Sandbox escape vulnerability: A deep dive into CVE-2022-26706

Credit to Author: Paul Oliveria| Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Microsoft uncovered a vulnerability in macOS that could allow specially crafted codes to escape the App Sandbox and run unrestricted on the system. We shared these findings with Apple, and fix for this vulnerability, now identified as CVE-2022-26706, was included in the security updates on May 16, 2022.

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