A North Korea-linked hacking group, dubbed Lazarus,. 'In one of the attacks, which Kaspersky refers to as, the group tricked an unsuspecting employee to download a trojanized cryptocurrency trading application that covertly downloaded and installed the,' reports SecurityWeek. Their malware was designed to target macOS in addition to Windows, marking the first time Lazarus has been observed using malware for Apple's OS, according to Kaspersky.
The malware was reportedly pushed via an update. Slashdot reader writes: The legitimate-looking application is called Celas Trade Pro and comes from Celas Limited. It's an all-in-one style cryptocurrency trading program which installs malicious code via an update. the program was seen running the Updater.exe module, which would collect system information and send it back to the server in the form of a GIF image,' reports SecurityWeek. 'Based on the server's response, the updater either keeps quiet or extracts a payload with base64 and decrypts it using RC4 with another hardcoded key to retrieve an executable file.'
'Autodesk has published a support document announcing that it is, and that older versions will not work on Mojave due to Apple's OpenGL deprecation,' writes Stephen Silver for Apple Insider. Alias is software predominantly used in automotive design and industrial design, while VRED is 3D visualization software. From the report: According to a note, while older Alias versions can run on High Sierra or earlier, 'no versions of VRED will run on that operating system due to the OpenGL deprecation.' The change, according to the Autodesk note, 'allows Autodesk development teams to focus on bringing innovations to market faster, and allows for more frequent software updates.' 'In the end, the entire Alias and VRED community will benefit from this streamlined approach,' wrote the company. This follows the announcement by Apple in June at WWDC that Mojave will require graphics hardware to support Metal, and that active development has ceased for OpenGL and OpenCL on the Mac.
It isn't clear why Autodesk made the declaration that OpenGL's deprecation was responsible for the applications not working in Mojave. Deprecation does not mean removed, and the existing OpenGL implementation in High Sierra remains in Mojave. The move at present does not appear to affect the core AutoDesk product. Apple's macOS surreptitiously, according to macOS security experts Wojciech Regula and Patrick Wardle. From a report: The problem is that these cached thumbnails are stored on non-encrypted hard drives, in a known location and can be easily retrieved by malware or forensics tools, revealing some of the content stored on encrypted containers.
On macOS, these thumbnails are created by Finder and QuickLook. Finder is the default macOS file explorer app, similar to Windows Explorer.
Whenever a user navigates to a new folder, Finder automatically loads icons for the files located in those folders. For images, these icons are gradually replaced by thumbnails that show a preview of the image at a small scale. The next version of iOS and macOS ',' reports BBC. At the company's developer conference, Apple's software chief Craig Federighi said, 'We're shutting that down,' adding that Safari would ask owners' permission before allowing the social network to monitor their activity. BBC reports: At the WWDC conference - held in San Jose, California - Mr Federighi said that Facebook keeps watch over people in ways they might not be aware of.
'We've all seen these - these like buttons, and share buttons and these comment fields. 'Well it turns out these can be used to track you, whether you click on them or not.' He then pointed to an onscreen alert that asked: 'Do you want to allow Facebook.com to use cookies and available data while browsing?' 'You can decide to keep your information private.' Apple also said that MacOS Mojave would combat a technique called 'fingerprinting', in which advertisers try to track users who delete their cookies. The method involves identifying computers by the fonts and plug-ins installed among other configuration details. To counter this, Apple will present web pages with less details about the computer.
'As a result your Mac will look more like everyone else's Mac, and it will be dramatically more difficult for data companies to uniquely identify your device,' Mr Federighi explained. Alongside, at its developer conference WWDC on Monday, - named 'Mojave' - the upcoming software update for the company's laptop and desktops lineups. The headline feature of macOS 10.14 is dark mode, a feature that people who work during late hours might appreciate. VentureBeat: A new Mojave feature called Dynamic Desktop can subtly change the desktop throughout the day, morning, afternoon, and evening. There's also Desktop Stacks, which can automatically clean up a messy desktop by arranging desktop contents into stacks based on content, date, or tag. Gallery View in the Finder lets you see content in a Photos-like display, including full metadata from cameras that can appear in an optional second sidebar; you can rotate photos and do basic automation of Actions within the Finder. The macOS screenshot creation tool has been expanded, as well, to enable instant creation of screengrabbed videos from current screen content.
Continuity has been expanded with Continuity Camera, leveraging your phone's camera to instantly add photos and scans to programs that request them. It also includes a Mac version of the Apple News aggregation app that debuted on iOS two years ago, including the Stocks feature and new sidebar that were shown off for the updated iPad version of News earlier in the Keynote. Voice Memos is also being brought to the Mac, as is Home, the HomeKit app from iOS. Apple also announced a collection of heightened security features for macOS, including protection by default of camera access, microphone access, your mail database, message history, and other private data. Apple has also redesigned the App Store, and is bringing favicons to Safari tabs. Microsoft's text editing app, Notepad, which has been shipping with Windows since version 1.0 in 1985, now.
'This has been a major annoyance for developers, IT Pros, administrators, and end users throughout the community,' Microsoft said in a today. The Register reports: Notepad previously recognized only the Windows End of Line (EOL) characters, specifically Carriage Return (CR, r, 0x0d) and Line Feed (LF, n, 0x0a) together.
For old-school Mac OS, the EOL character is just Carriage Return (CR, r, 0x0d) and for Linux/Unix it's just Line Feed (LF, n, 0x0a). Modern macOS, since Mac OS X, follows the Unix convention. Opening a file written on macOS, Mac OS, Linux, or Unix-flavored computers in Windows Notepad therefore looked like a long wall of text with no separation between paragraphs and lines. Relief arrives in the current Windows 10 Insider Build. Notepad will continue to output CRLF as its EOL character by default. It's not changing its stripes entirely.
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But it will retain the formatting of the files it opens so users will be able to view, edit and print text files with non-Windows line ends. Microsoft has thoughtfully provided an out for Windows users counting on the app's past inflexibility: the new behavior can be undone with a registry key change. Writes: Four days ago, Apple's latest macOS 10.13.4 update (perhaps permanently), turning what may be hundreds of thousands of external monitors connected to MacBook Pros via DisplayLink into paperweights. Some days in, DisplayLink has yet to announce any solution, and most worryingly there are indications that this is to macOS moving forward.
Mac Rumors is reporting that 'users of the popular Mac desktop extension app are, due to 'critical bugs' that prevent the software from communicating with connected iOS devices used as extra displays.' Users of other desktop extensions apps like and are also reporting incompatibility with the latest version of macOS. Catalin Cimpanu, writing for BleepingComputer: macOS High Sierra users are once again impacted by a.
This time around, according to a report from Mac forensics expert Sarah Edwards, recent versions of macOS High Sierra are logging encryption passwords for APFS-formatted external drives in plaintext, and storing this information in non-volatile (on-disk) log files. The issue, if exploited, could allow an attacker easy access to the encryption password of encrypted APFS external volumes, such as USB thumb drives, portable hard drives, and other external storage mediums.
This bug goes against all well-established Apple development and security rules, according to which apps and utilities should use the Keychain app to store valuable information, and should definitely avoid storing passwords in cleartext. Long-time Slashdot reader writes: Long ago, Apple used to produce rack servers, and a special flavor of OS X for that hardware with extra, server-friendly features.
After Apple got out of the rack server game, OS X Server soldiered on, with the occasional change in cost or distribution method. The next stop on the long, slow death march of OS X Server is here. With a recent post to their knowledgebase, Apple states that almost all of the services not necessary for the management of networked Macs and other iDevices are being deprecated. Apple writes that 'those depending on them should consider alternatives, including hosted services.' Last year, Apple that macOS High Sierra 'will be the last macOS release to support 32-bit apps without compromise.' Now, in the macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 beta, Apple is, too. 'To prepare for a future release of macOS in which 32-bit software will no longer run without compromise, starting in macOS High Sierra 10.13.4, a user is notified on the launch of an app that depends on 32-bit software.
The alert appears only once per app,' Apple says in the. Ars Technica reports: When users attempt to launch a 32-bit app in 10.13.4, it will still launch, but it will do so with a warning message notifying the user that the app will eventually not be compatible with the operating system unless it is updated. This follows the same approach that Apple took with iOS, which completed its sunset of 32-bit app support with iOS 11 last fall. Developers and users curious about how this will play out will be able to look at the similar process in iOS for context.
On January 1 of this year, Apple accepting 32-bit app submissions in the Mac App Store. This June, the company will also stop accepting updates for existing 32-bit applications. IOS, with 32-bit app submissions ending in February of 2015 and acceptance of app updates for 32-bit apps ending in June of 2015.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Neowin: Apple - including iOS 11.2.5, macOS 10.13.3 High Sierra, watchOS 4.2.2, and tvOS 11.2.5 - today. In doing so, it also for Macs running older versions of its OS, including OS X 10.11 El Capitan and macOS 10.12 Sierra. The security updates mainly focus on the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, which were fixed for High Sierra users.
OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan got the smallest update, including fixes for IOHIDFamily, Kernel, QuartzCore, and Wi-Fi. As for the Sierra update, it's available for machines that are running macOS 10.12.6. It includes the above fixes, but it also includes improvements for Audio, LinkPresentation, Security, and there's an additional Kernel fix. An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: A trivial-to-exploit flaw in macOS High Sierra, aka macOS 10.13,. The security bug is triggered via the authentication dialog box in Apple's operating system, which prompts you for an administrator's username and password when you need to do stuff like configure privacy and network settings.
If you type in 'root' as the username, leave the password box blank, hit 'enter' and then click on unlock a few times, the prompt disappears and, congrats, you now have admin rights. You can do this from the user login screen. The vulnerability effectively allows someone with physical access to the machine to log in, cause extra mischief, install malware, and so on. You should not leave your vulnerable Mac unattended until you can fix the problem. And while obviously this situation is not the end of the world - it's certainly far from a remote hole or a disk decryption technique - it's just really, really sad to see megabucks Apple drop the ball like this. Developer Lemi Orhan Ergan was the to the flaw.
The Register notes: 'If you have a root account enabled and a password for it set, the black password trick will not work. So, keep the account enabled and set a root password right now.' An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Press clover-space on a Mac (aka apple-space or command-space to Apple users) and you get a search box slap bang in the middle of the screen; type things into it and it'll show you all the things it can find that match.
On Windows, you can do the same kind of thing - hit the Windows key and then start typing - but the results are shown in the bottom left of your screen, in the Start menu or Cortana pane. The latest insider build of Windows, build 17040 from last week,. Discovered by Italian blog, and the search box appears in the middle of the screen.
The registry key calls it 'ImmersiveSearch' - hit the dedicated key, and it shows a simple Fluent-designed search box and results. This solution looks and feels a lot like Spotlight on macOS. An anonymous reader writes: One of the more surprising stories of the past year was Microsoft's announcement that it was going to use the. Microsoft had to modify Git to handle the demands of Windows development but said that it wanted to get these modifications accepted upstream and integrated into the standard Git client.
That plan appears to be going well. Yesterday, the company announced that GitHub was adopting its modifications and that the two would be. Microsoft says that, so far, about half of its modifications have been accepted upstream, with upstream Git developers broadly approving of the approach the company has taken to improve the software's scaling. Redmond also says that it has been willing to make changes to its approach to satisfy the demands of upstream Git. The biggest complexity is that Git has a very conservative approach to compatibility, requiring that repositories remain compatible across versions. Microsoft and GitHub are also working to bring similar capabilities to other platforms, with macOS coming first, and later Linux.
The obvious way to do this on both systems is to use FUSE, an infrastructure for building file systems that run in user mode rather than kernel mode (desirable because user-mode development is easier and safer than kernel mode). However, the companies have discovered that FUSE isn't fast enough for this - a lesson Dropbox also learned when developing a similar capability, Project Infinite. Currently, the companies believe that tapping into a macOS extensibility mechanism called Kauth (or KAuth) will be the best way forward.
Apple has refreshed just about every Mac product within the last couple of years - except for the Mac Mini. Naturally, this has left many analysts questioning whether or not the company would be phasing out the Mini to focus more on its mobile devices.
A MacRumors reader decided to email Apple CEO Tim Cook to get an update on the Mac mini and he received a response. Cook said it was 'not time to share any details,' but he. MacRumors reports: Cook's response echoes a similar statement from Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller, who commented on the Mac mini when Apple's plans for a new Mac Pro were unveiled. 'The Mac mini is an important product in our lineup and we weren't bringing it up because it's more of a mix of consumer with some pro use,' he said. Positioned as a 'bring your own peripherals' machine that comes without a mouse, keyboard, or display, the Mac mini is Apple's most affordable desktop machine. The current version is woefully outdated though, and continues to use Haswell processors and integrated Intel HD 5000/Intel Iris Graphics. It's not clear when Apple will introduce a new Mac mini, and aside from a single rumor hinting at a new high-end Mac mini with a redesign that 'won't be so mini anymore,' we've heard no rumors about work on a possible Mac mini refresh.
Joe Rossignol, writing for MacRumours: Brazilian software developer Matheus Mariano appears to have discovered a significant Disk Utility bug that. Mariano added a new encrypted APFS volume to a container, set a password and hint, and unmounted and remounted the container in order to force a password prompt for demonstration purposes. Then, he clicked the 'Show Hint' button, which revealed the full password in plain text rather than the hint. Apple has addressed this bug by releasing a macOS High Sierra 10.13 Supplemental Update, available from the Updates tab in the Mac App Store. MacOS 10.13's Disk Utility 17.0 (1626) does not recognize raw drives, reads a blog post, shared by several readers. From the post: Diskutil does recognize the drive. We'll use it to perform a quick, cursory format (e.g., diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ NewDisk GPT disk0) to make the disk appear in Disk Utility, where further modifications can more easily be made.
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Plugging in an unformatted external drive produces the usual alert, 'The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer. Initialize. Ignore Eject',. There's an option in Disk Utility to view 'all devices,' but clicking that doesn't show raw disks, the blog post adds.