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📰 News and Opinion
Mac Admins Foundation Announces the Charles S. Edge Jr. New Speakers Grant
This grant aims to encourage first-time speakers to share their expertise at conferences, empowering a diverse group of individuals to contribute their insights and experiences.
But how to get to that European cloud?
The very short version: It has now become clear that European governments can no longer rely on American clouds, and that we lack good and comprehensive alternatives. Market forces have failed to deliver a truly European cloud,
This year's WWDC keynote will be must-see Apple TV
Dan Moren on MacWorld
General consensus seems to be that Apple was caught flat-footed by the intense success of generative AI and had to scramble to catch up. It certainly seems like the company acted out of fear to try and not look like it was irrelevant, but from this vantage it seems like that decision may have backfired. Now, instead of simply looking out of touch, Apple looks, worse, like it can’t get the job done.
⚙️ Apple Updates
What happened to macOS in last week's updates?
Last week’s security updates to macOS have left some confusion over version numbers, and firmware for T2 Macs. This article attempts to clarify what happened
🔐 Security and Privacy
Apple's Passwords app was vulnerable to phishing attacks for nearly three months after launch
Most modern websites nowadays allow unencrypted HTTP connections but automatically redirect them to HTTPS using a 301 redirect. It’s important to note that while the Passwords app before iOS 18.2 would make a request over HTTP, it would redirected to the secure HTTPS version. Under normal circumstances, this would be totally fine, as the password changes occur on an encrypted page, ensuring that credentials are not sent in plaintext.
Leaking Passwords (and more!) on macOS
While Mach messages seem simple on their face, in practice they can involve a lot of manual memory management, which can be prone to issues.
macOS Malware Similarity in 3D with Jamf Data Science
Ilektra Giassa on the Jamf Engineering blog
One way to approach malware similarity is via the detection of binary code similarity that captures the functional similarity of two snippets of code.
🔨 Support and Tutorials
How to Install SentinelOne with Jamf Pro
This guide will show you how to utilize Jamf Pro to install SentinelOne on your Macs.
🤖 Scripting and Automation
JamfUploader - store your Jamf Pro credentials in the Keychain
I realised that I could simplify all this if JamfUploader processors would read directly from the Keychain.
Using /usr/libexec/mdmclient DumpManagementStatus to get information about MDM management
Rich Trouton on DerFlounder
On macOS, you can use the DumpManagementStatus function of the mdmclient command line tool to provide a lot of useful information if your Mac is enrolled with an mobile device management (MDM) server.
Forensically Sound Workstation Lockout for macOS (1.0.0)
For occasions where first forensically securing a macOS computer are preferred, the following approach may aid in keeping a device online for investigation, while discouraging end-user tampering.
Getting the macOS version number from the installer app
getting the version that will be installed by the application “Install macOS XXX.app” is more complicated
Revolutionizing Patch Management with Installomator
Jared Young on Jamf Tech Thoughts
Let’s take a look at legacy patching and then explore the current iteration of automated patching that leverages Installomator.
♻️ Updates and Releases
🎧 Listen
Just Us
It’s just us this week, as we talk through the March beta cycle, the iPhone 16e, what we hope is coming any day for the MacBook Air, and everything else that the cat drug in.
Insights and Updates from ACEs Conference 2025 with Justin Esgar
Insights and Updates from ACEs Conference 2025 with Justin Esgar
Homebrew enterprise management on macOS
John Britton from Workbrew about managing Homebrew at scale on macOS.