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« on: October 01, 2015, 03:00:20 am »

Security researcher finds simple way to bypass Gatekeeper and allow a Mac to run malware

A security researcher has found an extremely simple way to bypass Gatekeeper to allow Macs to open any malicious app, even when it is set to open only apps downloaded from the Mac App Store. Patrick Wardle, director of research at security firm Synack, told arsTechnica that once Gatekeeper okays an approved app, it pays no more attention to […]<img alt="" border="0" src="?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=400862&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><div class="feedflare">
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