Apple's Gatekeeper Still Broken (csoonline.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 15, 2016 @06:10AM from the to-remain-safe,-apple-recommends-not-being-attacked dept.

itwbennett writes: This weekend, Apple security expert Patrick Wardle will detail a vulnerability in Apple's Gatekeeper that makes it possible to bypass the anti-malware defense. This is the same vulnerability that was disclosed last April, which Apple said it patched later. Wardle was able to easily bypass Apple's fixes. He says "all Apple did was blacklist the signed apps he was abusing, but didn't fix the underlying issue, which is that, essentially, Gatekeeper functions as a guard that doesn't check" software already on the whitelist.

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Re:Doesn't matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-15 07:07 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Stroke that neckbeard. The rest of us will continue to be productive in OS X despite some slight problems.
A security issue like this isn't a "slight" problem you turtleneck wearing knob-slobber.