Mac Does Stuff

Month: January 2018

  • MacOS High Sierra – Another Security Bug

    So there’s been yet another security issue with MacOS High Sierra highlighted – the fact that you can authenticate to the App Store preference pane with any old password. Combine this with the recent one where you could authenticate to any MacOS machine with no password on a root user…well, it’s enough to make anyone a little concerned isn’t it?

    You can read about them here:

    macOS High Sierra’s App Store System Preferences Can Be Unlocked With Any Password

    Major macOS High Sierra Bug Allows Full Admin Access Without Password 

    I find it interesting that people think MacOS is so, so secure against the competition (Yes Windows, I’m looking at you). Really, is it? I’m not convinced. I think it’s probably reasonable to say that MacOS users are at less risk than their Windows counterparts (security by obscurity and all that), but I don’t think it’s inherently more secure. If this latest bug doesn’t convince you of that I’m not sure what else will.

    It’s the same with Anti-Virus/Malware in my opinion. Wrote about that previously:

    I don’t need Anti-Virus on my Mac…Right?

    Aaaanyway, sure I’ll now get to be told just how wrong I am? The joy of the Internets.

    Video below shows the exposure: Video no longer available.

  • Windows 10 – Profile is Grey

    I was using one of my Windows 10 Virtual Machines earlier and the profile lost all of its colour. It went grey (or gray…Which to use?!). It looked like this:

    Grey – Wrong

    …instead of:

    Correct Colours

    Just a bit strange I thought. Anyway, after some digging around it turns out Windows 10 has a set of colour filters to assist people who struggle to see certain colours.  Somehow I’d managed to turn it on.

    It’s simple to toggle – simply use Windows Key+ctrl+c and it’ll toggle between the two.

    You can also get to it through the Control Panel – go to ‘Ease of Access’ and you’ll see it in there under ‘Color Filters’. Well you learn something new every day, don’t you?