Use your software update, or don’t use Safari or Mac Mail now at all, please:
https://threatpost.com/apple-zero%e2%80%91days-active-attack/165842/
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
macOS and Intel
Meltdown, Spectre and Ubuntu
Mind the OSX/Doc
Mind the OSX/Doc, mix of social fishing and trojan malware for macOS
http://blog.checkpoint.com/2017/04/27/osx-malware-catching-wants-read-https-traffic/
Canonical LivePatch
Kernel updates without reboots now mainstream in Ubuntu
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/10/canonical-livepatch.html
Social Networking for Researchers
Workstation tweaks
In workstations, file indexing is not always what you want…
Disable in OS X:
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
Win 7
-> services.msc -> Windows Search Service -> stop + disable
Win 7, other special tweaks for special cases
- system protection: off
powercfg /hibernate off
- Pagfile.sys (manually set size & place)
Raspberry Pi
Large format cameras
Large format film is dead. Long live the large format film! Some fine equipment for you:
http://www.kenko-pi.co.jp/horseman/e/