Apple tries to stymie malware with changes to macOS Sierra’s Gatekeeper

Apple will further lock down what apps can be run on Macs when it releases macOS Sierra this fall, according to a Tuesday session at the company’s developer conference.

The move is likely a response to revelations last year that Gatekeeper — the feature and technology that restricts what applications can be run on a Mac — could be easily bypassed by attackers to plant malware on machines. A patch Apple issued in October 2015 failed to fix the problem, contended the original researcher, Patrick Wardle, director of research with Synack, in January.

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