Red Canary Mac Monitor Changelog

What's new in Red Canary Mac Monitor 1.0.5

Jul 28, 2023
  • Endpoint Security events added:
  • ES_EVENT_TYPE_NOTIFY_PROFILE_ADD:
  • When a profile is installed
  • ES_EVENT_TYPE_NOTIFY_OD_CREATE_USER:
  • When a user has been created in an Open Directory node
  • ES_EVENT_TYPE_NOTIFY_OD_CREATE_GROUP:
  • When a group has been created in an Open Directory node
  • ES_EVENT_TYPE_NOTIFY_OD_GROUP_ADD:
  • When a member has been added to an Open Directory group
  • ES_EVENT_TYPE_NOTIFY_OD_MODIFY_PASSWORD:
  • When a user’s password has been modified
  • ES_EVENT_TYPE_NOTIFY_OD_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_ADD:
  • When a value has been added to a record
  • ES_EVENT_TYPE_NOTIFY_XPC_CONNECT:
  • A connection has been established to an XPC service
  • ES_EVENT_TYPE_NOTIFY_AUTHORIZATION_PETITION:
  • A process has asked / “petitioned” for a set of authorization rights.
  • ES_EVENT_TYPE_NOTIFY_AUTHORIZATION_JUDGEMENT:
  • The decision by the security framework of the petitioned rights for the process
  • User experience (macOS 14 and newer):
  • Human readable Open Directory error codes to assist with debugging
  • Customizable table columns
  • System Security Unified table view
  • Process Execution events table view
  • Unified event correlation table view
  • Process Group table view
  • Native alert for displaying a warning before clearing events
  • Cross compatible updates:
  • General performance improvements across: Security Extension with data retrieval and the Core Data stack with the Event tracer app.
  • Huge shoutout to the Core Data team for digging in with me over WWDC this year!
  • Sonoma bug fixes:
  • Table row selection
  • Ask before quit
  • Disabling the event mask
  • Activity indicator