Another very busy week. (But aren’t they all?)
The Mojave Supplemental Update was pulled and re-released, Jamf continues buying interesting people and technology, and we got macOS Big Sur beta 9 with a feature/fix that MacAdmins have been clamoring for.
Virtual JNUC 2020 was on and had some great sessions. If you have registered you can (re-)view the sessions in the portal for three more weeks and then they will be moved to the Jamf YouTube channel. Thanks to everyone who presented a session, I have not been to watch the all (not even close) but will try to over the next few weeks. Thanks also, to everyone who watched my session live and for all the kind feedback I have already gotten. You can find the slides, notes and links for my session here.
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News and Opinion
macOS 11 Big Sur and iOS 14
macOS Catalina 10.15 and iOS 13 Updates
- Safari 14.0 + Mojave 2020–005 Security Update Causing Major Problems! – Mr Macintosh
- Catalina 10.15.7 Update = accountsd hitting 400% CPU if using iCloud – Mr Macintosh
- 10.14.6 Supplemental Update (Safari 14) Released to Fix Previous Issues – Mr Macintosh
- Apple has released macOS Mojave 10.14.6 Supplemental Update – Howard Oakley
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Steve Hayman: “Your grep one-liner du jour. Count how many words of each length appear in the
/usr/share/dict/wordsdictionary.for n in $(jot 25); do printf "%2d letter words: " $n; grep -E "^.{$n}\$" /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l; done” (Thread)
Bugs and Security
- Phishing Resistant SMS Autofill – The GitHub Blog
- FinFisher Filleted – Patrick Wardle, Objective-See’s Blog
- The Finfisher Tales, Chapter 1: The dropper – reverse.put.as
Support and HowTos
- Clearing failed MDM commands on Jamf Pro – Rich Trouton
- Backing up Jamf Pro Self Service bookmarks – Rich Trouton
- What to do when a macOS update goes wrong (macOS 10.13–11.0) – Howard Oakley
- Screen Recording Preferences and Big Sur – Tom Bridge
- Let’s Get Conditional – Unconditional Love — MacBuddy
- Upgrading to Jamf Connect 2.0 – Frederick Abeloos
- Diagnosing an abnormal startup: what that screen means – Howard Oakley
Scripting and Automation
- Can’t you just right click? Yes, with a workflow – Jeff Johnson
- Avoiding AppleScript Security and Privacy Requests – Scripting OS X
Apple Support
Updates and Releases
To Watch
To Listen
- Bookclub Chapter 5 – MacDevOpsYVR
- Go 5Ghz Or Go Home – Command-Control-Power
- Swift Apps with Nindi Gill – Mac Admins Podcast
- iOS and macOS updates with DataJAR – Apple @ Work Podcast, 9to5Mac
- Investigating digital vulnerabilities with Samy Kamkar – Lock and Code, Malwarebytes Labs
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