#MALWAREBYTES FOR MAC? SOFTWARE#

Note that I’m just a developer, neither a security researcher nor an exploit writer, and my descriptions of security issues and their mitigations might fall between “slightly incorrect” and “completely wrong”. Use common sense, assess the risks, choose, and take responsibility for your choice.

In this article, I describe poorly-documented, or completely undocumented, features that could stop working as advertised or disappear completely without notice in future releases of macOS. On macOS, nobody seems to do it (at least not in public), and something as simple as diffing the includes from one SDK version to the next and patiently going through it, file by file, can reveal interesting features nobody knows (or at least talks) about.Ĭomparing the macOS 11 and macOS 10.15 SDKs, I found several intriguing surprises that deserve to be more widely known. This is not uncommon on, say, Windows: There are entire websites dedicated to large scale, long term, differential reverse engineering, that tell you what new functions appeared in what version of Windows, how their relationship with other functions has changed, how internal data structures have evolved etc.

#MALWAREBYTES FOR MAC? SOFTWARE#

Me, I download the software development kit (SDK) for the new version, and diff it with the current version. When a new release of an operating system comes out, normal people find out what’s new by attending developer conferences, reading release notes, changelogs, reviews. macOS 11’s better known security improvements.A deep dive into macOS 11’s internals reveals some security surprises that deserve to be more widely known.

Malwarebytes for mac?