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📸 Focus
📰 News and Opinion
Macs lead global PC growth as shipments return to pre-pandemic levels
New IDC report shows Apple is significantly outgrowing competitors.
The Meat Grinder
The company I see today. The company that has rooted itself in so many industries and leveraged its influence in said industries to stifle competition. The company that approaches regulation with spite, that seems to relish in any opportunity to flex their muscles of malicious compliance. The company that has built up a walled garden so all-encompassing that it feels damn near impossible to escape. The signs were always there.
There are many more great quotes in this article. Just go and read it.
Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks
Apple sent threat notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries on Wednesday, warning them that they may have been targeted by mercenary spyware attacks.
What to do if Apple contacts you about malware or security
If you receive emails sent to the addresses known to Apple, and messages to Messages, notifying you of a threat against you, confirm this in iCloud.com and follow the advice given. Otherwise, it’s most likely to be a scam or phishing attack.
About Apple threat notifications and protecting against mercenary spyware
Apple threat notifications are designed to inform and assist users who may have been individually targeted by mercenary spyware attacks.
⚙️ Apple Updates
- visionOS 1.1.2: About, no security notes (yet)
🔐 Security and Privacy
Return of the mac(OS): Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) Database Manipulation
This report will equip defenders with essential recommendations to safeguard against TCC.db abuse and stay ahead in the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape.
Cross Platform ECIES encryption with Swift & Apple's Secure Enclave
some hybrid cryptography fundamentals and one of Apple's implementations as part of their Security framework as well as links to some new resources
Bringing process injection into view(s): exploiting all macOS apps using nib files
what other resources might there be included in app bundles that could lead to process injection? Then, we spotted the MainMenu.nib file hiding in plain sight in many macOS applications. As it turned out, that file can also be swapped and a shallow code-signing check will still pass. What could the full impact be if we replaced that file?
🔨 Support and Tutorials
How to secure your company's iOS devices
The best way to keep your organization's iOS devices secure is by remotely managing the behavior of these devices with configuration profiles.
What are UUIDs and why might I need them?
Everywhere you look, there’s now at least one if not many UUIDs.
How to Use Touch ID in Terminal
In order to use Touch ID after a sudo command, we would have to make some modifications to sudo_local.template.
🤖 Scripting and Automation
Swift 6 upgrade Preparation
Swift 5 updates have been slowly building up to the release of Swift 6. Some of the major updates have been the addition of async/await (concurrency) and existentials. If you use any of these features there will be some significant changes that will require some refactoring.
♻️ Updates and Releases
How Jamf Routines automates workflows
learn how Jamf Routines automates workflows, the templates that are available today and why we created it.
🎧 Listen
Is Good Enough, Good Enough?
With guests Marcus Ransom and Kyle Randall (Jamf Solution Engineers), unpack when “good enough is good enough” and when it is problematic.
Dongles need not apply
Rashid Galadanci from Driver about using the iPhone as a fleet management tool.
Mac@Cisco: A Mac Admins Perspective
Most of us will have seen or heard about Fletcher Previn’s presentation at JNUC 2023 around the employee choice program at Cisco, and how the numbers stack up for offering the mac.
🎈Just for Fun
iPad Air Gradient Wallpaper
Many of the banner images and ads showcasing the new [first] iPad Air used a beautifully soft blue to light teal gradient wallpaper.
The first generation of a new product line is obviously iconic. But there is also that product generation a bit further down the line where everything suddenly fits together and which renders the first gen product "clunky and old." For the iPhone, it was the iPhone 4 and for the iPad, it was the iPad Air.