So, today was my last day at Pentland. On Monday I start my new role as Systems Engineer at dataJAR.
Below is a simple explanation of why & some hopes for the future.
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StandardGoogle Chrome 50 OS Requirement Changes
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Earlier today, Google Chrome 50 was released. With this release, there are some changes to the platforms that Google Chrome is supported on.
Below is some detail on this, & how it could affect you.
Continue readingAirwatch REST API URI Changes
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When looking into the issue in my last post, I found I could no longer access Airwatch’s online API documentation.
Heading to Ask Airwatch & looking for the API documentation revealed why.
With the 8.3 release, Airwatch have started a process of refactoring & remotion of the Uniform Resource Identifier (read: URI) used for API calls.
See below for more information on these changes.
Issues Accessing Airwatch API After 8.3.1.0 Update
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As mentioned before we have some scripts that access Airwatch’s REST API.
Sadly a recent update to our SaaS instance to 8.3.1.0 lead to our scripts failing.
Below is a little post with the resolution.
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KeRanger ransomware, an attempt at detection & removal via the JSS
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Transmission is a popular BitTorrent client for Mac, over the weekend it emerged that a version of their app available from the projects website had been swapped with another version.
This version contained the KeRanger ransomware, this seems to be the first functioning example of ransomware affecting OS X.
Below is more information, as well as a script that should alert or clean up affected Macs.
Continue readingEthernet connection on some Macs stops working after a recent update
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On Friday, Apple released an update titled “Incompatible Kernel Extension Configuration Data: Version 3.28.1”
This update was an exclude list of bad Kernel Extension’s for 10.11 & included an Apple Kernel Extension.
Below is some more information on this & a possible way to detect affected Macs via the JSS.
Continue readingUI & UX for the scripter
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This post is for my macad.uk talk: UI & UX for the scripter. It contains various links to things I discussed & (when available), I will update with the sessions video.
Continue readingSparkle Updater Framework HTTP man-in-the-middle vulnerability
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Sparkle is an open source update framework that is used within thousands of Mac apps, including my own AutoCasperNBI & AutoImagrNBI.
A vulnerability within which was recently disclosed, with an update to Sparkle issued soon after.
However, the update may take some time to reach all the apps that are on the Macs that we admin. So the below is some more detail, methods of mitigation & detection.
Accessing Box’s API via OAuth2 & Python’s Requests Module
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As mentioned before, when using Box with ADFS for SSO there are more than a few limitations.
In an attempt to overcome them, I took on Box’s API. The first hurdle was trying to connect to it as Box uses OAuth2 which massively differs from other API authentication for other API’s I’ve access such as Airwatch.
However, I’ve a method & in I’ve detailed it below. This method is used throughout all my Box API scripts.
Deleting Portfolio’s Orphaned Temp Files
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So the past few posts detailed how to parse Portfolio’s logs to find troublesome files as well as how to restart Portfolio’s services.
Well when Portfolio is struggling to catalog files, it can generate massive amounts of temp files & folders, which if not maintained can fill the Portfolio hosts hard drive.
Not a great situation, so I’ve written the below to help automate the maintenance.
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