Disable Little Snitch Startup

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There are two Keyboard Maestro macros here, to Enable or Disable Little Snitch's network filter using GUI scripting.

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Both the scripts work entirely the same way:

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  • Check to see if Little Snitch Configuration.app is running, save to a variable QUIT_LITTLESNITCH

  • Launch Little Snitch Configuration.app

  • Open Little Snitch Configuration.app's preferences (see note below)

  • Click on the 'General' tab (see note below)

  • Look for either a 'Stop' button or 'Start' button

    • if a 'Start' button is found when we want to enable the Network filter, press it

    • if a 'Stop' button is found when we want to disable the Network filter, press it

    • if a 'Start' button is found when we want to disable the Network filter, the network is already disabled (the presence of a 'Start' button means that the filter is stopped).

    • if a 'Stop' button is found when we want to enable the Network filter, the network is already enabled (the presence of a 'Stop' button means that the filter is already stopped).

  • If neither a 'Start' or 'Stop' button is found, prompt the user to see if GUI Scripting is enabled, and then cancel the macro.

  • Send ⌘ + W to close the preferences window

  • If QUIT_LITTLESNITCH is 'yes' then quit Little Snitch Configuration.app

This is the Note Below that was mentioned above: The 'click on General' step is probably unnecessary, since Little Snitch's preferences default to showing the 'General' tab when it opens, but it feels like the right thing to do. For example, what if the preferences panel had already been opened to some other panel for some reason? Also, just for the sake of completeness, the macro opens the preferences panel using both the menu item and the keyboard shortcut. Doesn't hurt anything to do it twice, and if, for some reason, one of them misfires, the other could work.

Warning!

In order for these macros to work, you have to enable GUI Scripting access to Little Snitch. Doing so is a potential security risk, so understand what you're doing before you do it. I consider the risk to be minimal and worth the trade-off. Use entirely at your own discretion. Caveat emptor.

To make that change, open Little Snitch Configuration.app and go to the 'Security' pane, click the lock icon (bottom left) and then make sure the box next to 'Allow GUI Scripting access to Little Snitch' as shown here:

Installation

After installing Keyboard Maestro, download the Enable-or-Disable-LittleSnitch-Network-Filter.kmmacros file. (n.b. the file can be named anything you want, just make sure that it ends with '.kmmacros' and nothing else (like .xml or .plist).

Disable Little Snitch Startups

The easiest way to install it is simply to double click the '.kmmacros' file, which should import the macro into Keyboard Maestro and tell you that 2 macros were imported.

You can also use Keyboard Maestro's File » Import Macros.. menu as shown here:

Then select the Enable-or-Disable-LittleSnitch-Network-Filter.kmmacros file from the Finder. You should get the same notification shown above.

DEF CON A vulnerability in popular OS X security tool Little Snitch potentially granted malicious applications extra powers, undermining the protection offered by the software.

Little Snitch reports in real-time the network traffic entering and leaving your Apple computer, and can block unauthorized connections. It is a handy application firewall that reveals the information flowing out your system and the sources of those packets.

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Unfortunately, it was trivial for a malicious app to bypass Little Snitch's network monitoring mechanisms, says security researcher Patrick Wardle.

Wardle is a former NSA staffer who heads up research at infosec biz Synack. He also discovered a heap overflow bug in Little Snitch's kernel extension code, which could be exploited by an installed application to gain administrator-level access via the security software.

Little Snitch Mac

This kernel-mode vulnerability will be the main focus of an upcoming presentation by Wardle on Little Snitch at the DEF CON hacker gathering in Las Vegas this week. He will also demonstrate how programs could silently disable Little Snitch's network filtering, and how an Apple bug fix made this previously unexploitable kernel bug exploitable on OS X 10.11.

Little Snitch tricked .. A slide from Patrick Wardle's forthcoming talk

Disable Little Snitch Startup Program

Little Snitch is built by Austrian firm Objective Development Software. Wardle said its developers fixed the kernel-level flaw with the release of Little Snitch 3.6.2 without acknowledging his discovery. Pedro Vilaça aka osxreverser also found low-level bugs in Little Snitch that could be exploited to crash the Mac, or disable or bypass the network filtering: these were fixed in version 3.6.4, which was released last month.

Highlighting and pushing for improvements in Apple's malware defenses has been a major focus of Wardle’s research efforts for more than three years – you can find a bunch of his file-system security tools here. ®

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