An Apple Malware-Flagging Tool Is ‘Trivially’ Easy to Bypass

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An Apple Malware-Flagging Tool Is ‘Trivially’ Easy to Bypass

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Netsec@links.hackliberty.org · 1 year ago

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The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine. But a researcher says it has troubling flaws.

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