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Alerts you about outgoing network connections for your Mac

What's new in this version:

Little Snitch warns about potential consequences when you deny a connection and Little Snitch knows the purpose of the connection. Since this warning may be annoying, it can now be disabled on a per-application basis - Added support for additional remote endpoint types in the Internet Access Policy. To quite Little Snitch Configuration, you need to right click on its icon on the Dock, choose the Quit option, and click on the Quit button in the pop-up dialog. To entirely deactivate an app, you can launch Activity Monitor, select the processes with the name of Little Snitch, and click the “X” button on the upper-left corner. Jan 15, 2020  Little snitch 4.5.1 Crack enhanced DNS name-based traffic filtering using Deep Packet Inspection. Connection warnings can be minimized to delay the decision to allow or reject the connection. Enhanced Search Assistant, now also accessible in Network Monitor and Little Snitch Configuration. Sep 02, 2019  However, Little Snitch is quite expensive and not many users can afford it. So in this article, we bring you the best Little Snitch alternatives which are cheaper and some of them are absolutely free. Be assured, the apps do not compromise on privacy and you also get almost all the popular Little Snitch features. Mark rules from connection alert as unapproved — Little Snitch Configuration marks unapproved rules with a blue bullet. It indicates that these rule were created outside of Little Snitch Configuration and you may want to review them. When this option is set, the connection alert creates rules with this unapproved-status.

Improved detection of program modification:
- Little Snitch has a security mechanism that ensures rules are only applied to programs for which they were originally created. This is to prevent malware from hijacking existing rules for legitimate programs. To do that, Little Snitch must be able to detect whether a program was modified. How Little Snitch does that changes with this version
- Previous versions required a program to have a valid code signature in order to be able to detect illegitimate modifications later on. Programs without a code signature could not be validated and Little Snitch warned accordingly. The focus was therefore on a program’s code signature
- Beginning with version 4.3, Little Snitch can always check whether a program has been tampered with, even if it’s not code signed at all. The focus is now on checking for modifications with the best means available. That is usually still the code signature but for programs that are not code signed, Little Snitch now computes a secure hash over the program’s executable. (There’s still a warning if a process is not signed, but only to inform you about a possible anomaly)
- This change leads to a different terminology. When editing a rule, Little Snitch Configuration no longer shows a checkbox titled “requires valid code signature” but instead one that is titled “check process identity” (or if the rule is for any process: “apply to trusted processes only”)
- Instead of a “code signature mismatch”, Little Snitch’s connection alert now informs that “the program has been modified”
- In cases where Little Snitch detects such a modification, it now also better explains the possible underlying cause and the potential consequences
- For more information see the chapter Code identity checks in the online help
Configuration File Compatibility:
- This version uses a new format with speed and size improvements for the configuration file in which the current rule set and the preferences are stored. This new file format is not compatible with older versions of Little Snitch, though. When updating to Little Snitch 4.3, the old configuration file is left untouched in case you want to downgrade to a previous version of Little Snitch. All changes made in Little Snitch 4.3 or later are not included in the old file, of course. Note that backup files created using File > Create Backup… in Little Snitch Configuration use the old file format and are therefore backward-compatible with previous versions of Little Snitch
Improved Support for macOS Mojave:
- Improved appearance in Dark Mode
- Fixed backup restore from Time Machine not working in Little Snitch Configuration due to the new “Full Disk Access” security mechanism
- Fixed creating Diagnostics Reports for non-admin users (on macOS High Sierra and later). When you contact our tech support, we sometimes ask you to create these reports
Performance Improvements:
- Improved overall performance for large rule sets
- Reduced CPU load of Little Snitch Daemon during DNS lookups
- Reduced CPU load of Network Monitor while inactive
- Improved performance of rule sorting in Little Snitch Configuration, which leads to better overall performance
- Fixed Little Snitch Daemon hanging while updating a rule group subscription that contains many rules
- Fixed a memory leak that occurred when closing a snapshot window in Network Monitor
Internet Access Policy:
- Fixed an issue causing an app’s Internet Access Policy not being shown if that app was running in App Translocation
- Fixed clickable links not working in the “Deny Consequences” popover when creating rules in connection alert or Network Monitor
- Internet Access Policy file: Fixed large values for a connection’s “Port” being rejected
Process Identity and Code Signature Check Improvements:
- Added support for detecting revoked code signing certificates when checking a process’ code signature. The connection alert and Network Monitor now treat such processes like processes without a valid code signature and show relevant information. Also, rules created will use an appropriate identity check (based on the executable’s checksum, not based on the code signature)
- When showing a connection alert for a process that has no valid code signature, Little Snitch now tries to find out if loading a shared library may have caused the issue with the code signature. If so, this is pointed out in the connection alert
- Fixed handling of app updates while the app is still running: Previous versions of Little Snitch would complain that the code signature could not be checked if the running app was replaced on disk, e.g. during an update
- Fixed an issue where connection alerts would erroneously contain a warning that an application’s code signing certificate was unacceptable. This mainly happened when a process’ first connection was an incoming connection
Improved Handling of Connection Denials and Override Rules:
- Improved handling of override deny-rules that were created as a consequence of a suspicious program modification (“Connection Denials”). In Network Monitor, these rules are now marked with a dedicated symbol. Clicking that symbol allows to remove that override rule, if the modification is confirmed to be legitimate
- Changed override deny-rules created for failed code identity checks to not be editable or deletable. Instead, double-clicking such a rule allows you to fix the underlying issue, which then automatically deletes the override rule
UI and UX Improvements:
- Automatically combine rules: For improved handling of large rule sets with many similar rules that only differ in host or domain names. This is common when subscribing to blocklists, which may contain thousands of similar, individual rules denying connections to various servers. The new “Automatically combine rules” option in Little Snitch Configuration (on by default) now combines such similar rules into a single row, making it much easier to keep track of large lists of rules
- Improved appearance when Accessibility option 'Increase contrast' is active
- Improved floating window mode in Network Monitor
- When choosing File > Restore from Backup in Little Snitch Configuration, the list showing possible backup files now includes backups that Little Snitch created automatically
- Improved the map shown in the “Known Networks” window in Little Snitch Configuration
- Improved the legibility of traffic rates in the status menu on Retina displays
- Fixed data rates shown in Network Monitor to match the values shown in the status menu
- Fixed the “Duration” setting in Preferences > Alert > Preselected Options not being respected
- Fixed an issue with “undo” when unsubscribing from a rule group or when deleting a profile
- Fixed an issue in Little Snitch Configuration where the “Turn into global rule” action did not work
- Fixed an issue where an error that occurred in the course of a previous rule group subscription update was still displayed, even though the problem no longer existed
Other Improvements and Bug Fixes:
- Increased the maximum number of host names allowed in a rule group subscription to 200.000
- Fixed an issue causing XPC services inside bundled frameworks to not be recognized as XPC. This resulted in connection alerts to be shown for the XPC services themselves instead of for the app the service belongs to
- Fixed an issue causing Time Machine backups to Samba servers to stop working under some circumstances
- Fixed an issue related to VPN connections with Split DNS configuration that caused only the server’s IP address to be displayed instead of its hostname
- Reduced the snap length in PCAP files, allowing them to be analyzed not only with Wireshark but also with “tcpdump”

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

Both the scripts work entirely the same way:

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

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• 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:

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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).

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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.

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

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