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“A launchd Tutorial”
(Videos)
Adding .nosync to the end of a folder in iCloud Drive stops it being synced (via ).
macOS Catalina and later ship with zsh as .
Add a .hushlogin file to the directory you terminal starts in to suppress the Last login: message at the top of your terminal.
Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts
Click + to add a new one called Lock Screen and set the key combo (eg. ⌥⌘+L)
If you run brew tap sidaf/homebrew-pentest you'll be able to install any formulas from the sidaf/homebrew-pentest repository via brew install. brew install panoptic will search the default Homebrew repository then any tapped repositories for a formula with the name panoptic.
By default Homebrew does not automatically update itself or installed packages. To manually update Homebrew and upgrade all installed packages run:
brew update (Update the formulae and Homebrew itself)
brew upgrade (Upgrade all packages installed by Homebrew)
By default, Homebrew does not uninstall old versions of formula. From time to time you'll want to run brew cleanup to remove old version of formula.
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(brew) is a package manager for macOS akin to the (apt) on Debian and Ubuntu.
are third party repositories for homebrew.
“penetration testing related tools”
As of Homebrew brew install python installs python3.x not python2.7.x. This was not compliant as running python would execute the python3.x binary which violates “all distributions should ensure that python refers to the same target as python2”.
This was fixed in . brew install python still installs python3.x but will not symlink python to the python3.x binary. Running python will execute the system python2.7.x binary and running python3 will execute the brew python3.x binary.
See for more info.
See for more info.
We get free from . Used by most mac wankers on the course. Would recommend over all other virtualisation programs for Mac.
Currently .
() - This app keeps your Mac awake for a set period of time, whilst an app is running, and much more.
() Open any archive in seconds
Slack-style emoji picker for your Mac
Native Mac OS app with efficient LaTeX environment
Build an OS X boot disk
Put anything in your menu bar
Stop the annoying mouse acceleration when scrolling in macOS
For general information see . This section list macOS specific tools.
() Apple's own IDE. Best for , C++ and Objective-C.
() notebook built for programmers
offline access to 200+ API documentation sets
() Apple device focused password manager
Application firewall
“Use GPG Suite to encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify files or messages”
“providing a quick and easy way to get administrator rights when needed”
was created by to provide simple, effective and free macOS security tools. Some of his most useful tools are listed below.
(Beta) Alerts when something is persistently installed
Monitors and alerts on mic and webcam access
Open-source application firewall
Adds a menu item to Finder.app to view the cryptographic signature of files
“trigger haptic feedback when tapping Touch Bar”
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“collection of OSX and iOS security resources”
"Every OS X/ macOS white paper"
- (Security, General)
- (Forensics)
- (Security)
- (General, Security)
- (Security)
- (31c3)
- (Black Hat 2012)
- (Ekoparty 2015)
- (HITBGSEC 2015)
- , & (Black Hat 2015)
- (DEFCON 23)
- (HITBGSEC 2016)
- (DEFCON 24)
- (CITP Princeton)
- and (Ekoparty 2017)
- (HITBAMS 2017)
- & (Black Hat 2018)
- (Black Hat 2018)
- (DEFCON 26)
- Dionysus Blazakis (No video)
- (No video)
- (No video)
- Joshua Long (Intego Mac Security Blog)
- On Mac Secure Boot
- Pepijn Bruienne (Duo Blog)
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- (SpecterOps)
- Mark Wadham
- (SpecterOps)
- Michael George (Dropbox Blog)
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- MDSec
- (Project Zero Blog)
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- and (Duo Blog)
- Dionysus Blazakis (2011)
- (2012)
- (2015)
- & (2018)
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- Kshitij Kumar and Jai Musunuri (CrowdStrike Blog)
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(10.10.5)
- (10.11.5) (10.12)
- Amit Singh (2006)
[The Mac Hacker's Handbook]() - and () (2009)
- () () (2012)
- () (2017)
- () (2016)