Security Bite

9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to management and security combines state-of-the-art Apple-specific security solutions for fully automated Hardening & Compliance, Next Generation EDR, AI-powered Zero Trust, and exclusive Privilege Management with the most powerful and modern Apple MDM on the market. The result is a totally automated Apple Unified Platform currently trusted by over 45,000 organizations to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple. This week, Christopher Lopez (@L0Psec) returns to the Security Bite Podcast. Chris is a longtime macOS security researcher and reverse engineer, and was last on the show to break down the rise of ClickFix. In this episode, we dig into the new details surrounding the record $6.3 billion Binance hack, from a malicious Homebrew clone to a fake job interview that led attackers inside an engineer’s Mac. Links Follow Chris on X and LinkedIn Follow Arin on X and LinkedIn Binance initial findings blog post Subscribe to the show Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Pocket Casts RSS Feed Security Bite is 9to5Mac’s weekly deep dive into the world of Apple security. Each week, Arin Waichulis unpacks new threats, privacy concerns, vulnerabilities, and more, shaping an ecosystem of over 2 billion devices. Every other week on the Security Bite Podcast, he sits down with experts in the field to break down the most pressing topics.

9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to management and security combines state-of-the-art Apple-specific security solutions for fully automated Hardening & Compliance, Next Generation EDR, AI-powered Zero Trust, and exclusive Privilege Management with the most powerful and modern Apple MDM on the market. The result is a totally automated Apple Unified Platform currently trusted by over 45,000 organizations to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple. This week, I welcome Ron Zayas to the Security Bite podcast. Ron is the CEO of Ironwall by Incogni, which helps public officials scrub and keep their personal information from data brokers and people-search sites. Earlier this year, he appeared on 60 Minutes to talk about exactly that. But in this episode, we discuss all things privacy around AI agents, and who yours is really working for. Enjoy. Links The last 24 hours at Meta were “not-a-musing” Check out Ironwall's latest research Follow Ron on LinkedIn Follow Arin on X and LinkedIn Subscribe to the show Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Pocket Casts RSS Feed Security Bite is 9to5Mac’s weekly deep dive into the world of Apple security. Each week, Arin Waichulis unpacks new threats, privacy concerns, vulnerabilities, and more, shaping an ecosystem of over 2 billion devices. Every other week on the Security Bite Podcast, he sits down with experts in the field to break down the most pressing topics.

9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to management and security combines state-of-the-art Apple-specific security solutions for fully automated Hardening & Compliance, Next Generation EDR, AI-powered Zero Trust, and exclusive Privilege Management with the most powerful and modern Apple MDM on the market. The result is a totally automated Apple Unified Platform currently trusted by over 45,000 organizations to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple. Last week Apple told developers it’s adding new controls to Full Disk Access on the Mac, the permission that lets an app read nearly everything on the user's drive. Speculation on what exactly these changes will be have gone parabolic. So, in this solo episode I walk through what exactly Full Disk Access is, what Apple said is changing, what prompted it, and what we still don't know. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Links Security Bite: The last 24 hours at Meta were “not-a-musing” Full Disk Access on Mac: Here’s what Apple must, and must not, do Follow Arin on X and LinkedIn Subscribe to the show Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Pocket Casts RSS Feed Security Bite is 9to5Mac’s weekly deep dive into the world of Apple security. Each week, Arin Waichulis unpacks new threats, privacy concerns, vulnerabilities, and more, shaping an ecosystem of over 2 billion devices. Every other week on the Security Bite Podcast, he sits down with experts in the field to break down the most pressing topics.

9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to management and security combines state-of-the-art Apple-specific security solutions for fully automated Hardening & Compliance, Next Generation EDR, AI-powered Zero Trust, and exclusive Privilege Management with the most powerful and modern Apple MDM on the market. The result is a totally automated Apple Unified Platform currently trusted by over 45,000 organizations to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple. This week, I sat down with Ananay Arora, founder and CEO of OpenHack, a Y Combinator startup building an "always-on AI security engineer" for finding vulnerabilities on Mac (and everywhere else). We get into how it works, what's going on with Apple's Security Bounty Program, and how to land your first CVE. I hope you enjoy! Links Apple’s baffling bug bounty changes finally make sense Check out OpenHack Follow today's guest Ananay on X and LinkedIn Follow Arin on X and LinkedIn Subscribe to the show Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Pocket Casts RSS Feed Security Bite is 9to5Mac’s weekly deep dive into the world of Apple security. Each week, Arin Waichulis unpacks new threats, privacy concerns, vulnerabilities, and more, shaping an ecosystem of over 2 billion devices. Every other week on the Security Bite Podcast, he sits down with experts in the field to break down the most pressing topics.

9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to management and security combines state-of-the-art Apple-specific security solutions for fully automated Hardening & Compliance, Next Generation EDR, AI-powered Zero Trust, and exclusive Privilege Management with the most powerful and modern Apple MDM on the market. The result is a totally automated Apple Unified Platform currently trusted by over 45,000 organizations to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple. This is part two of my conversation with Patrick Wardle of Objective-See and Kseniia Yamburh of Moonlock Lab. In part one, we got into Apple's bug bounty program and the AI slop problem. This time, Kseniia walks through what's actually hitting Macs in 2026 based on Moonlock's mid-2026 threat report, and Patrick previews Objective by the Sea v9, the largest Apple security conference (and the only one). Links Apple caps security bug reports amid surge in AI-generated findings Apple’s baffling bug bounty changes finally make sense Follow Patrick Wardle on X and LinkedIn Check out Objective-See and upcoming #OTBS v9 conference Follow Kseniia on X Check out Moonlock’s mid-2026 macOS threat report Follow Arin on X and LinkedIn Subscribe to the show Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Pocket Casts RSS Feed