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About Objective-See

The Idea

As Macs become more prevelant, so does OS X malware. Unfortunately, current Mac security and anti-virus software is fairly trivial to generically bypass.

Objective-See was created to provide simple, yet effective OS X security tools. Always free of charge - no strings attached!


About Me

Aloha, my name is Patrick Wardle. I created Objective-See to publish the personal tools that I've created to secure my Mac computer.


As the Chief Security Researcher of R&D at Synack, I've presented at over 25 security conferences such as BlackHat, DefCon, RSA, VirusBulletin, ShmooCon, & CanSecWest.

Slides of my talks can be found on my 'Speaker Deck' page. While some of my published research is listed below:

• Methods of Malware Persistence on OS X
• iWorm's Infection Vector and Persistence Mechanism
• Dylib Hijacking on OS X