Apologies! Sky Kinda Falling + Protecting Yourself From Sparklegate

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This is a followup to yesterday’s post: Sky Not Falling: Sparklegate Not As Bad As It Could Be After trying and failing to reproduce Sparklegate, I arrived at the conclusion that Gatekeeper and Quarantine did in fact protect OS X users from the Remote Code Execution (RCE) attack. What I Missed Radek, the discoverer of […]

(UPDATED) Sky Not KINDA Falling: Sparklegate Not As Bad As It Could Be

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UPDATE February 1, 2016: It turns out some users are vulnerable to this attack. Read this followup post! Sparklegate is the term I’ve coined for the recent discovery that, allegedly, every OS X machine out there is vulnerable to RCE (remote-code-execution) attacks because the widely used Sparkle framework, along with OS X’s standard WebView component, […]