Posted: April 17th, 2009 The iServices Trojan Horse botnet first reported by SecureMac back in January has been activated. Users who have been infected are encouraged to download the iServices Trojan Horse Removal Tool, available for free at https://www.securemac.com/files/iServicesTrojanRemovalTool.dmg Read more about the botnet at…
April 17, 2009 • 1 min readSecureMac Advisory Posted: March 17th, 2009 Security Risk: Critical Just after the DNSChanger 2.0d variant was identified, another new variant of the DNSChanger Trojan Horse, DNSChanger 2.0e, has been discovered in the wild. The trojan horse arrives in a disk image (some samples are called…
March 2, 2009 • 3 min readPirated copies of Photoshop CS 4 has been reported by Intego to contain malware. On January 16th Photoshop CS 4 containing the malware was seeded to peer-2-peer servers. This trojan have been labeled as OSX.Trojan.iServices.B, the second variant of the trojan, the first discovered in…
January 26, 2009 • 1 min readSecureMac has released a free tool to remove the iWorkServices Trojan Horse called iWorkServices Trojan Removal Tool. The trojan as reported by Intego (1/22/09) has been bundled with pirated copies of iWork 09.
January 23, 2009 • 1 min readSecurity Alert: A trojan is being distributed with pirated copies of Apple’s iWorks 09. Pirated copies of iWorks 09 are being distributed with a trojan bundled in the installer package. Intego has released a warning recommending that users should not download iWorks 09 from pirate…
January 22, 2009 • 1 min readSecureMac Security Bulletin Posted: December 17th, 2008 Security Risk: Critical Halloween marked the one-year anniversary since the DNSChanger Trojan Horse was discovered in the wild, and in that time it has grown to become the single most widespread piece of malware on OS X. In…
December 17, 2008 • 3 min readLas Vegas, Nevada – SecureMac.com, an information security company known for its cutting edge security solutions and security website for Apple Macintosh computers, is pleased to announce it will be attending MacWorld Expo at the Moscone Center in San Fransisco from January 6-9, where it…
December 5, 2008 • 3 min readNew OS X Trojan Horse in the WildSecureMac Security Advisory Security Risk: Critical SecureMac has discovered multiple variants of a new Trojan horse in the wild that affects Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. The Trojan horse is currently being distributed from a hacker website,…
June 7, 2008 • 3 min readAdvisory Title: Intego VirusBarrier X4 definition bypass exploit Release Date: 2006 November 8 Affected Products: Intego VirusBarrier X4 Severity: Moderate Where: Local System Author: Kevin Finisterre Fix: Bug Fixed Starting with 2006/11/01 Vdef files Exploit: pwntego.tar.gz Kevin Finisterre, a security researcher with digitalmunition.com has discovered…
November 11, 2006 • 8 min readRecently, Mac OS X has been known to be vulnerable to many new remote exploits. Theses exploits are allowing to remotely execute code on your computer when you surf a webpage. Most of the people reading about theses vulnerabilities often missunderstand or apprehend the impact…
May 8, 2004 • 4 min readNotes & Warnings Ability If FileVault is enabled on an account, access to that account’s Public folder and Sites folder will not be available to anyone else, regardless if the user is logged in or not. So, if that user wishes to serve a website…
November 16, 2003 • 5 min readMac OS X FileVault Security Advisory Advisory Title: FileVault Leaves Unencrypted Home Data Behind Release Date: 2003 November 6 Fix Date: Mac OS X 10.4 (May 2005) Affected Product: Mac OS X 10.3 Build 7B85 Impact: Unencrypted Data Left Behind Where: Local System Author: CodeSamurai…
November 6, 2003 • 3 min readWhat is Crypt for Mac OS X? Crypt is a native MacOSX application for encrypting and decrypting files with a password of your choice. The cipher used is Blowfish. Blowfish is currently the fastest mainstream block cipher and is used in OpenSSH. There are so…
November 3, 2003 • 1 min readAdvisory Title: USB Keyboard Init Crash -> Root Access Release Date: 2003 October 31 Affected Products: Mac OS X 10.2.7 and prior (possibly 10.2.8) Severity: Moderate Impact: Root Access Where: Local System Author: Jason Storm (jms@lasergun.org) VULNERABILITY With access to a USB Keyboard connected to…
October 11, 2003 • 2 min readAffected Product: Mac OS X 10.3 Build 7B85 Severity: Low Impact: Security Bypass Where: Local System Author: CodeSamurai (codesamurai@mac.com) VULNERABILITY With access to the keyboard, an unauthorized user can access the currently active screen-locked user environment. However, there is only a relatively small opening in…
October 4, 2003 • 2 min readSAINT, or Security Administrator’s Integrated Network Tool, is a vulnerability scanner that allows network administrators to scan their local area networks for security flaws. SAINT can then prepare reports detailing the extent and seriousness of these weaknesses, as well as providing links to fixes and…
September 2, 2003 • 3 min readSecurity Issue: Mac OS X Screensaver Password Protection Bug Systems Vulnerable: Mac OS X 10.2.6 and prior Date Fixed: TBA Apple’s Mac OS X screensaver apparently contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that causes the screensaver to dump not requiring the user to enter a legitimate…
July 7, 2003 • 1 min readComputers running Mac OS X prior to 10.2.4 and unpatched contain a vulnerability that can be exploited to create files that can be run at elevated privileges because of the TruBlueEnvironment. Included is the security advisory covering the issue discovered by @Stake’s Dave. For those…
February 11, 2003 • 3 min readInformation LittleSecrets for Mac OS X gives the Macintosh users the ability to store notes in an encrypted format that can only be accessed with the password assigned to the file. Upon launching the encrypted file the user is instructed to enter the password, only…
January 10, 2003 • 2 min readInformation Tresor is a file encryption tool for the Macintosh. It is simple to use, fast, and offers very high cryptographic security. It is available in native versions for 68k Macs and PowerMacs as well as in a FAT version and requires MacOS 7.0 minimum….
December 8, 2002 • 2 min read