Even though it is a long week-end here this news summary still delivers!
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News and Opinion
- An Open Letter from the CEO of Puppet: Puppet + Perforce – Puppet Blog (Puppet does not have much footprint in Mac management any more, but it used to)
- Tim Cook Attacks Sideloading in Privacy Keynote – Michael Tsai
MacAdmins on Social
- Matt Godden: “If you’re using macOS HighSierra or Sierra, iCloud has stopped working / can’t log in, and you can’t access icloud.com in Safari – here’s a solution: Install the Apple IST CA 2 – G1 certificate, and everything will work again.” (via Michael Tsai)
Security and Privacy
- First Malware Targeting AWS Lambda Serverless Platform Discovered – Ravie Lakshmanan, Hacker News
- “Your AppIe lD has been locked” spam email takes you on a website mystery tour – Christopher Boyd, Malwarebytes Labs
Support and HowTos
- Customizing MunkiReport: Dashboards – DAM SAN
- The kernel and extensions 1: To Mojave – Howard Oakley
- The kernel and extensions 2: Secure Boot – Howard Oakley
- What Success Looks Like For You – Pam Lefkowitz JumpCloud
- Presenting with an iPad – Robin Laurén
- Guide for Apple IT: Zero-Touch Deployment for Mac – Kandji Blog
Scripting and Automation
- Non-Apple Daemon Services – Nate Felton
- Making a custom Nudge launch agent – Alan Siu
- Launching Scripts #1: From Terminal – Scripting OS X
- On env Shebangs – Scripting OS X
Apple Support
Updates and Releases
To Watch
To Listen
- MacOS Malware: Myth vs. Truth – Threatpost Podcast
- Where device management meets device security – Apple @ Work Podcast, 9to5Mac
- Ed Marczak – Santa is not corporate malware – MacDevOpsYVR
- Customer Success with Laurence Leong – Jamf After Dark
- Why data protection and privacy are not the same, and why that matters – Lock and Code, Malwarebytes Labs
- Got Fiber? – Command-Control-Power
- Apple in the Enterprise: A 2022 Report Card – Mac Admins Podcast
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