OS X
Sorry to bring this up, but your computer is not perfect. Neither were the programmers who wrote the programs. Neither were the dude’s who designed the hardware. And of course the user is not perfect! Patches and Updates are used to correct programming errors and fix vulnerabilities in the software. It is difficult to keep [...]
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It’s convenient to just turn on your computer, go get a cup of coffee and have the desktop waiting for you when you come back. Right? But do you realize that you are putting your sensitive data at risk when you do that? What if you lose your computer? One barrier to the Bad Guys [...]
Rob Griffiths over at MacWorld.com created a list of his eight favorite OS X features. It can be found here. Item number three for Rob is The Unix underpinnings. I couldn’t agree more! The Unix security model is left fairly well intact in OS X. As a result, the standard installation of OS X is [...]
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I’m in the process of setting up a seldom-used PowerBook G4 to use as my “Security Tools” notebook. It is running 10.5.6 with the xcode tools installed. Now, the software that I’ve installed so far for InfoSec purposes… MacPorts – This is “a system for compiling, installing, and manaaging open source software” on mac. Yep, [...]
You probably have sensitive information stored on your notebook computer and may not even realize it. The loss or theft means that sensitive or confidential information has been removed from your control. Who knows where the information will end up, or what it will be used for. You can take some very practical steps toward [...]
