My name is Stuart. I'm a macOS security researcher at Huntress, and I created Crash Security (although I don't really maintain it anymore). I'm a reader 📖, basketball coach 🏀, and play the violin 🎻. Former radio DJ and play-by-play broadcaster.
Find me around the web 🌎:
- Personal
- macOS
- Open Source Projects 🤓
- Notes
- Speaking 🗣
- BlueNoroff’s Clues: Investigating a DPRK Intrusion at Objective by the Sea 2025 coming soon
- Say Hello to Mac Malware at Huntress's Tradecraft Tuesday 2025
- Ready or Not: The Revised (Mis)Education of macOS Security Internals at MacAdmins University of Utah
- Mitigating Maliciousness in the Mitten at Detroit Roadshow
- Texas BBQ: Breaches, Bypasses, and Quarantining with Huntress’s EDR at Houston Roadshow
- Stealer Crossing: New Horizons at Objective by the Sea 2024
- Ready or Not: The (Mis)Education of macOS Security Internals at MacDevOpsYVR 2024
- Debunking 5 Major macOS Myths
- Stop Mac Hacks in Their Tracks at Huntress
- Famous AMOS: Protecting Your Cookies at Huntress's Tradecraft Tuesday 2024
- Investigating macOS Malware with Open Source Tools at Huntress's Tradecraft Tuesday 2023
- What Happened?: Swiftly Investigating macOS Security Incidents with Aftermath at JNUC 2023
- (dm)XProtect: Stop, Drop, Shut Malware Down Before It Opens Up Shop at MacDevOpsYVR 2023
- In the Aftermath at Objective by the Sea 2022
- A Closer Look at Built-In macOS Security Tools at JNUC 2022
- 2021 Mac Attack Trends in Review at JNUC 2021
- Podcasts 🎙️
- Technical Writing 📝
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- Feeling Blue(Noroff): Inside a Sophisticated DPRK Web3 Intrusion
- Debunking 5 Major macOS Myths
- LightSpy Malware Variant Targeting macOS
- Full Transparency: Controlling Apple's TCC Part II
- Full Transparency: Controlling Apple's TCC
- macOS Terms and Trends You Should Know About
- Ask the Mac Guy: Do I Need AV on Mac
- Ask the Mac Guy: What's the Deal with Full Disk Access
- Ask the Mac Guy: Best Practices for Securing Macs
- Ask the Mac Guy: macOS Security Myths
- (dm)XProtect: Stop, Drop, Shut Malware Down Before It Opens Up Shop
- The Battle for macOS Management: MDM vs. RMM
- Endpoint Security in a macOS World
- macOS (Not)ifications
- Built-in macOS Security Tools
- Insistence on Persistence
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Jamf
- Get to know Aftermath: Jamf’s open-source incident response tool
- Jamf Threat Labs identifies macOS Archive Utility vulnerability
- Apple Updates XProtect to v2145 and MRT to v178
- Apple updates XProtect to v2146
- Zero-Day TCC bypass discovered in XCSSET malware
- Apple updates both XProtect and MRT
- XLoader offers new macOS malware-as-a-service
- Jamf Threat Labs identifies Safari vulnerability allowing for Gatekeeper bypass
- Jamf protects against Gimmick malware from pulling the strings on macOS
- Hunting Spring4Shell, another Java-based exploit
- Jamf protects against oRAT malware
- UpdateAgent Adapts Again
- Apple updates to XProtect and MRT
- Shlayer malware abusing Gatekeeper bypass on macOS
- Apple updates both XProtect and MRT
- Apple has pushed a new update to XProtect
- iOS developers targeted by new XcodeSpy malware
- Apple updates to XProtect and MRT
(slide decks are also available in the Crash Security)
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