Apple’s Activation Lock is an anti-theft feature built into iOS, watchOS, and macOS Catalina that prevents people from restoring your Apple devices without your permission. “With the release of macOS Catalina earlier this fall, any Mac that’s equipped with Apple’s new T2 security chip now comes with Activation Lock,” writes iFixit’s Craig Lloyd. What this means is that there will likely…
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Kali Linux Adds ‘Undercover’ Mode to Impersonate Windows 10
“Kali Linux 2019.4 was released last week and with it comes an ‘Undercover’ mode that can be used to quickly make the Kali desktop look like Windows 10,” reports Bleeping Computer: Kali is a Linux distribution created for ethical hacking and penetration testing and is commonly used by researchers and red teamers to perform security tests against an organization. As most…
New Tracking Prevention in Microsoft’s Edge Will Hit Google the Hardest
Microsoft’s Edge browser is built on the same open source code as Google Chrome. But Ed Bott, writing for ZDNet, noticed something interesting: On January 15, 2020, Microsoft is scheduled to roll out a completely revamped Edge browser to the general public. That browser, which is available for beta testing now on all supported versions of Windows and MacOS, includes a…
Facebook Teams With Microsoft On Visual Studio Code’s Remote Extensions
A new Facebook blog post explains the company doesn’t mandate one development environment internally. “Some developers use vim. Some use Emacs. And even more engineers use our internal, unified development environment called Nuclide,” which originally was a set of open-source packages built on top of the Atom editor. But in late 2018, Facebook “announced to our engineers” that the company was…
Does Linux Have a Marketing Problem?
On Hackaday’s hosting site Hackaday.io, an electrical engineer with a background in semiconductor physics argues that Linux’s small market share is due to a lack of marketing: Not only does [Linux] have dominance when raw computing ability is needed, either in a supercomputer or a webserver, but it must have some ability to effectively work as a personal computer as well,…
Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy
David Shayer, who worked as a software engineer at Apple for 18 years across iPod, the Apple Watch, and Apple’s bug-tracking system Radar, among other projects, looks at the current iOS and macOS releases and tries to work out why they are so buggy. He writes: 1. Overloaded Feature Lists Lead to Schedule Chicken: Apple is aggressive about including significant features…
Forbes Raves Upcoming Linux Desktop Will ‘Embarass’ Windows 10 and macOS
Forbes senior contributor Jason Evangelho dedicated a whole article to a coming update for one Chinese-domestic Linux distribution: If you haven’t been paying attention to a little Linux desktop distribution called Deepin, it’s time to put it on your radar. Nevermind that Huawei chose Deepin to ship on their MateBook laptop lineup. Nevermind that Deepin Cloud Sync [for system settings] is…
Critical Remote Code Execution Flaw Fixed In Popular Terminal App For MacOS
itwbennett shares a report from CSO: iTerm2 users: It’s time to upgrade. A security audit sponsored by the Mozilla Open Source Support Program uncovered a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the popular open-source terminal app for macOS. ITerm2 is an open-source alternative to the built-in macOS Terminal app, which allows users to interact with the command-line shell. Terminal apps…
Slashdot Asks: What Did You Like/Dislike About iTunes?
iTunes is officially dead with the release of macOS Catalina today. Apple decided to break apart the app into separate Apple Music, Podcasts and TV apps. “Each is better at its individuals task than it was as a section within iTunes, which was teetering on collapse like the Jenga tower of various functions it supports,” writes Dieter Bohn via The Verge….
macOS Systems Can Be Abused In DDoS Attacks
An anonymous reader writes: “DDoS-for-hire services, also known as DDoS booters, or DDoS stressors, are abusing macOS systems to launch DDoS attacks,” reports ZDNet. “These attacks are leveraging macOS systems where the Apple Remote Desktop feature has been enabled, and the computer is accessible from the internet, without being located inside a local network, or protected by a firewall. More specifically,…