Patrick Wardle, director of research at Synack and Apple security expert, will detail a Gatekeeper vulnerability on Sunday during ShmooCon. Wardle plans to release an open source kernel extension that monitors process creation in response to Gatekeepers mixed bag of coverage. TaxAct, a tax preparation and filing program, recently sent customers a notification surrounding suspicious activities on their accounts. Tax act will offer 12 months of credit monitoring to those impacted by the incident. It’s likely the accounts accessed were sharing passwords and fell victim to a Phishing scheme.”]

