Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle released a tool called OverSight that monitors when malware may be recording a webcam or audio session on a macOS machine.
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Patrick Wardle on macOS Gatekeeper, Crypto Enhancements
At last week’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced some security upgrades around Gatekeeper and a new filesystem that includes native support for encryption. Mac hacker Patrick Wardle, director of research at Synack, explains whether this a big deal and how the upgrades address some problems he’d disclosed to Apple.
Apple’s ‘Targeted’ Gatekeeper Bypass Patch Leaves OS X Users Exposed
Two separate Apple patches for Gatekeeper bypasses have been incomplete, and leave users exposed to attacks.
VirusTotal Adds Sandbox Execution for OS X Apps
Google-owned online malware scanner VirusTotal this week announced the availability of sandbox execution for Mac OS X apps.
Writing Advanced OS X Malware an ‘Elegant’ Solution to Improving Detection
OS X security researcher Patrick Wardle is expected at Black Hat to demonstrate how to write advanced Mac malware, including Gatekeeper and Xprotect bypasses, in hopes of raising awareness to the current state of OS malware detection.
Stealthy, Persistent DLL Hijacking Works Against OS X
Researcher Patrick Wardle of Synack is expected this week at CanSecWest to unveil malicious dylib attacks against Apple’s Mac OS X.