Looks like gatekeeper isn’t all that cracked up to be

Armando Vias posted an article to the Security Box with another gate keeper issue where it can’t protect you from harm.

This time, it isn’t necessarily gatekeeper’s fault, as it does prompt you to open a file that it doesn’t know anything about. If you download, say an image, and an actor can get you to go to a site where they can change that image to a different file extension, gatekeeper lets it run and that could lead to some malicious activity if done successfully.

This hacker news article Apple Pays $100,500 Bounty to Hacker Who Found Way to Hack MacBook Webcam has all of the details on this one.

I don’t necessarily blame apple and gatekeeper, but this was definitely a bad one, I think. Keep yourself up to date as much as possible.

I have had some mac training, and I’m not a mac user currently, and I don’t even own a mac, but this is something I’m concerned about. The thing is, people in the mac space have never had to deal with things like this, so knowing where you’re going on the web is crucial to protecting yourself. Don’t go somewhere you’re not expecting to go.

Someone with a Mac may want to comment if they’ve seen something like this and how they avoided this.