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A binary authorization and monitoring system for macOS

23 mentions on Hacker News by 22 people: 12 stories, 11 comments · first 2014-12-01 · latest 2024-05-21

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  1. …a silent block, which always felt like overkill when I was using it for solely that purpose. 1. https://github.com/google/santa
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    Santa: A binary authorization and monitoring system for macOS
    story by nateb2022 · 2024-05-05 · 0 comments
  3. Not directly relevant but interesting... https://github.com/google/santa This is a product developed by Google that has at least been utilized internally to some extent. It's not perfect, but my previous company used it and it does prevent…
  4. …launched and block executables it isn't aware of. A binary authorization system for macOS https://github.com/google/santa
    comment by sitkack · 2022-12-07 · in VSCode remote code execution advisory
  5. …hear) Block unknown executables on company machines. Google developed Santa to protect themselves: https://github.com/google/santa > and that's all it takes to steal cookies and tokens post-mfa, Make post-MFA cookies and tokens…
  6. Santa is open-source: https://github.com/google/santa
    comment by dehrmann · 2022-08-01 · in Google’s in-house desktop Linux
  7. …I'd never heard of this before. "A binary authorization system for macOS". Open source. https://github.com/google/santa
    comment by lapcat · 2022-06-24 · in Hardening macOS
  8. https://github.com/google/santa is used to whitelist binaries on Macs, but you can fill out a form to instantly opt out. One of the options for why is "I use a package manager".
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    Google / santa: A binary whitelisting/blacklisting system for macOS
    story by zdw · 2020-02-28 · 0 comments
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    Santa: A binary whitelisting/blacklisting system for macOS by Google
    story by guessmyname · 2020-01-21 · 0 comments
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    Santa, a binary white/blacklisting app for macOS from Google
    story by tcsf · 2018-09-28 · 2 comments
  12. …is also code-signed, which is important to some organizations which relies on binary whitelisting (e.g. github.com/google/santa). Software from Homebrew or Anaconda are typically not code-signed. I was hoping that perhaps bringing the old…
    comment by sslalready · 2018-08-25 · in So far #macOS Mojave ships with Python 2.7.10
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    Google/santa: A binary whitelisting/blacklisting system for macOS
    story by vinnyglennon · 2018-08-09 · 0 comments
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    Google/santa: A binary whitelisting/blacklisting system for Mac OS X
    story by walterbell · 2018-04-06 · 0 comments
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    Google's Santa – A binary whitelisting/blacklisting system for Mac OS X
    story by dgellow · 2018-03-27 · 0 comments
  16. …When people do not code-sign their software every software update is painful. At work, where we run https://github.com/google/santa , it frequently happens that companies with code-signed software forget to code-sign their auto-updater, or…
    comment by sslalready · 2017-09-07 · in Vagrant 2.0
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    Google/santa: A binary whitelisting/blacklisting system for Mac OS X
    story by tambourine_man · 2017-05-06 · 0 comments
  18. …downloads on a reputable site(Github), instead of developer's own PHP backend. Software like https://github.com/google/santa can help, especially if you're doing IT in a large enterprise. The feed used by the software's autoupdate…
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    Google/santa: A binary whitelisting/blacklisting system for Mac OS X
    story by lelf · 2017-04-17 · 0 comments
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    Santa – A whitelisting/blacklisting system for macOS by Google
    story by jbernardo95 · 2016-08-19 · 0 comments
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    MaxOS executable whitelisting by Google
    story by xeniak · 2016-08-18 · 0 comments
  22. https://github.com/google/santa seems like it takes this approach. Gives an enterprise the ability to decide which signed certs it wants to trust and then block everything else unless it gets vetted.
    comment by datguacdoh · 2016-07-10 · in Symantec's Bad Week
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    Santa: A binary whitelisting/blacklisting system for Mac OS X
    story by nl5887 · 2014-12-01 · 6 comments