Episode 286: Thijs Alkemade on the vulnerability from Black Hat

Mac Admins Podcast

One of our favorite things about interviewing security researchers is that those who can talk about what they do at places like DEF CON and Black Hat are the good guys. They exploit vulnerabilities and report their findings to vendors so that humanity can stay safer on our devices. If it weren’t for them, the vulnerabilities would likely be uncovered and sold on the black market or used by nation states. So a huge thanks to our guest Thijs Alkemade for his hard work and talk at DEF CON and Black Hat on process injection for Mac apps!

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
• Charles Edge - @cedge318

Guests:

• Thijs Alkemade - @xnyhps

Transcript:

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Links:

• Process injection
• CVE-2021-30873
• How Signing and Privacy Xcode Options For Developers Translate to MacAdmins - krypted
• Process injection: breaking all macOS security layers with a single vulnerability · Sector 7
• Thijs Alkemade (@xnyhps) / Twitter

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