Greetings from Gothenburg, where I have been attending MacSysAdmin conference this week. I am humbled to be among the amazing line-up of speakers again. My thanks and congratulations to the organizers, speakers, sponsors, and, especially, attendees for another wonderful conference! See you all next year!
In other news, we got Catalina beta 9 earlier this week and then ‘GM seed’ yesterday. So, this also seems to be coming to a close. Several other Apple related updates as well.
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On Scripting OS X
News and Opinion
- Last Week on My Mac: Hollywood’s lessons – Howard Oakley
- How Google Changed the Secretive Market for the Most Dangerous Hacks in the World – Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, Vice
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Zentral: “We also updated the deployment guides for Zentral. GoogleCloud, AWS”
macOS Catalina
Bugs and Security
- New iOS exploit checkm8 allows permanent compromise of iPhones – Thomas Reed, Malwarebytes Labs
- Jamf Pro 10.15.1 FAQ – Jamf Nation
- Jamf Pro critical security vulnerability – PI–007507 – Ben Toms
- Apple Successfully Implements OpenID Connect with Sign In with Apple – OpenID
- Zero Trust Architecture: Draft NIST SP 800–207 Available for Comment
Support and HowTos
- A (former) Mac admin’s (shadow) IT guide to upgrading to macOS 10.15 Catalina – zamzummin
- Zentral up and running on AWS – Zentral
- More DEP Sync Errors – Ben Toms
- Working with APFS Volume Groups – Mike Bombich
- How has XProtect changed? – Howard Oakley
- Notarization on macOS Catalina and IT auditing – Rich Trouton
- Will Gatekeeper let me run that app in Catalina? – Howard Oakley
Scripting and Automation
- Lambda to Sign Configuration Profiles – Charles Edge
- An Initial Look into Protobuf Data in Mac and iOS Forensics – mac4n6.com
- Programmatically Generate qrcodes on macOS – Charles Edge
- Jamf smart group with lots of serial numbers and a bit of regex – Bart Reardon
Apple Support
- About iOS 13.1.2
- About iPadOS 13.1.2
- About watchOS 6.0.1
- About the security content of macOS Mojave 10.14.6 Supplemental Update 2, Security Update 2019–005 High Sierra, and Security Update 2019–005 Sierra (Note that this article lists the build versions of macOS Sierra [16G2136], HighSierra [17G8037], and Mojave [18G103] after the update. Thank you!)
- Download macOS Mojave 10.14.6 Supplemental Update (There is also a new ‘Install macOS Mojave’ app for 18G103.)
- What’s new in Keynote 9.2: Mac, iOS and iPadOS
- What’s new in Pages 8.2: Mac, iOS and iPadOS
- What’s new in Numbers 5.2: Mac, iOS and iPadOS
- What’s new in Schoolwork
Updates and Releases
- Hexer: Hex File Viewer for iOS
- AutoPkgr 1.5.1
- BBEdit 13
Also note that if you are still using TextWrangler it will not run on 10.15! BBEdit is now free, the paid license or subscription will unlock more features.
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