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This setting provides the user an understanding of the current status of Location Services and which applications are using it. Rationale:Apple has fully integrated location services into macOS. Where the computer is currently located is used for Timezones, weather, travel times, geolocation, "Find my Mac," and advertising services. This benchmark recommends that location services ...

Safari will automatically run or execute what it considers safe files. This can include installers and other files that execute on the operating system. Safari evaluates file safety by using a list of filetypes maintained by Apple.The list of files include text, image, video and archive formats that would be run in the context of the OS rather than the browser. Rationale:Hackers have taken ...

Power Nap allows the system to stay in low power mode, especially while on battery power, and periodically connect to previously known networks with stored credentials for user applications to phone home and get updates.This capability requires FileVault to remain unlocked and the use of previously joined networks to be risk accepted based on the SSID without user input. This control has been upda ...

In macOS 14.0 Sonoma, Apple released the ability to limit dictation to staying on-device and not sending data to the Siri severs. The use of dictation is likely to include editing documents with confidential information.While Apple does have controls to obfuscate voice data that exists on their servers it is recommended that Dictation collected information does not leave the local Mac. Rati ...

With macOS 10.12, Apple introduced the capability to have a user's Desktop and Documents folders automatically synchronize to the user's iCloud Drive, provided they have enough room purchased through Apple on their iCloud Drive. This capability mirrors what Microsoft is doing with the use of OneDrive and Office 365. There are concerns with using this capability. The storage space that Apple ...

In macOS Monterey (12.0), Apple has added the capability to share content from another Apple device to the screen of a host Mac. While there are many valuable uses of this capability, such sharing on a standard Mac user workstation should be enabled ad hoc as required rather than allowing a continuous sharing service. The feature can be restricted by Apple ID or network and is configured to ...

System Integrity Protection is a security feature introduced in OS X 10.11 El Capitan. System Integrity Protection restricts access to System domain locations and restricts runtime attachment to system processes. Any attempt to inspect or attach to a system process will fail. Kernel Extensions are now restricted to /Library/Extensions and are required to be signed with a Developer ID. ...

Attackers use websites with malicious or unwanted content to exploit the user or the computer. Part of the attack chain is to lure someone to load their content rather than the desired content. In order to reduce the risk in interacting with unwanted content, the full website address should always be displayed in Safari. Rationale: Full visibility into what site is being visited is importa ...

There is a vast network of groups that collect, use and sell user data. One method used to collect user data is pay and provide contented and services for website owners, along with that "assistance" the site owners push tracking cookies on visitors. In many cases the help allows a content owner to keep the site up. The tracking cookies allow information brokers to track web users acr ...

Apple provides a framework that allows advertisers to target Apple users and end-users with advertisements. While many people prefer that when they see advertising it is relevant to them and their interests, the detailed information that is data mining collected, correlated, and available to advertisers in repositories is often disconcerting. This information is valuable to both advertisers and at ...


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