by CodeSamurai of SecureMac.com Disclaimer & Warning Enabling the Open Firmware password protection feature is done so at your own risk; the author of this article and/or SecureMac will NOT be held accountable or responsible for whatever you do. Changes to Open Firmware that have…
June 2, 2001 • 4 min readWhether your neighbor is nosy, your roommate is curious, your sister is prying, or you’re just plain paranoid, Private Eye can help. Using a master password and tricky file-hiding techniques, you can virtually make your files disappear at the touch of a button and, with…
June 2, 2001 • 2 min readInformation FoolProof was established by a company in Oregon called SmartStuff in 1992, throughout the years the software has grown to be a secure product for Macintosh computers. Views The macintosh underground security team has done extensive research on foolproof, throughout the years finding ways…
June 2, 2001 • 4 min readInformation Free Guard is a utility to hide files and folders. It is password protected at application startup. Nothing is encrypted, and someone could still make the files and folders visible without too much trouble. It is based on the “if they do not know…
June 2, 2001 • 1 min read“Where do you keep your confidential data? Like most people these days, you’ve probably got a growing number of user IDs, passwords, registration keys, PINs, serial numbers, and the like, stored in various places on your Mac or scribbled on miscellaneous pieces of paper around…
June 2, 2001 • 3 min readInformation SuperLock Pro is the most secure and full-featured version of SuperLock. Unlike SuperLock Lite, which is designed primarily for single-user machines, SuperLock Pro was designed specifically for machines with multiple users, such as those in labs, computer stores, and many offices. SuperLock Pro is…
June 2, 2001 • 4 min readWhat is Malevolence? Malevolence is a simple application created by Marukka which extracts login/password information from the system in a unshadowed format. It has been discovered there a numerous ways to obtain the passwd information from netinfo including simply typing the command command “nidump passwd…
June 2, 2001 • 1 min readMarukka, a programmer at MSEC (Macintosh Security Group) has created a modified version of the mach_init that will make it so Mac OS X does not have the ability to boot into single user mode. The MSEC single-user patch disables the ability to boot into…
June 2, 2001 • 2 min readWhat is sudo? Sudo (superuser do) is a piece of software that allows a system admin to give certain users/groups the ability to run commands as root or another user Sudo is available with most all unix based operating systems including Mac OS X. The…
June 2, 2001 • 2 min readInformation Password Protect Folders (PPF) is designed to password protect personal folders on local or remote disks. One or more folders are dragged and dropped onto the AppleScript, assigned a user defined password and then made invisible. Folders are restored by relaunching the application, selecting…
June 2, 2001 • 2 min readA fatal bug in MacOS X Server renders Apple’s new operating system practically useless as a web server. The problem is particularly critical since it affects MacOS Server X release 1.0 in one of its key features. During a server load test at c’t Labs,…
June 2, 2001 • 2 min readWhat is GnuPG? GnuPG is a cost free replacement for PGP. Because GnuPG does not use the patented algorithm (IDEA), it can be freely used without restrictions. GnuPG application is fully RFC2440 (OpenPGP) compliant. GPGMail is the front-end for GnuPG adding PGP functionality to Mac…
June 2, 2001 • 2 min readImportant Notice! How safe is your virus protection software? Not safe enough, rumor had it that the software company Fan Software released a defunct virus protection application called Insecticide priced @ 25.00 shareware . SecureMac.com ran Insecticide through the 3 point virus inspection test against…
June 2, 2001 • 1 min readTHIS IS SAMPLE CODE! ——————————————— This is the first public release, It is pretty stable for everyday use, but I am aware of a few bugs. I have listed them below.. This sample is a good example of what can be done with the AppleShare…
June 2, 2001 • 10 min readInformation A lot of this information was gathered from other sources on the Internet. This flaw is old. Just not well publicized. Now that it is, we can cover it a little more and explain why it happens, and what damage it can cause. This…
June 2, 2001 • 6 min readDecrypt-a-tron is a application to decrypt the Apple password algorithm, created by System Coyboy. macfspwd.c is a .c script to decrypt the apple password algorithm. Created by Nate Pierce. This is a .c document. You can use a compiler or a unix machine to execute…
June 2, 2001 • 4 min readHave you ever had to call for tech support on a product only for them to ask you for your serial number or registration code or when you bought it? Have you ever visited a website where you needed to enter a user name and…
June 2, 2001 • 2 min readOperating System Affected: MacOS 8.6 and below Software: ALL versions of FileGuard Threat: medium The computer protection software “FileGuard” is renowned for its excellent ability of keeping people off your box. While playing around with the latest version, I started playing with the logs. I…
June 2, 2001 • 1 min readFileGuard Security Advisory – Disengage 1.0 OS 9.1 Ready, Now fully being developed and supported by Intego Information FileGuard has been a trusted program amongst Mac users who have searched for a way to keep their computers and data secure, in most recent news Intego…
June 2, 2001 • 9 min readBrickHouse (Mac OS X Firewall Configuration) BrickHouse was developed by Brian Hill to ease the process of configuring MacOS X’s built-in Firewall. His hard work has paid off; hundreds of OS X owners use his program. Changing Firewall settings manually without a GUI can be…
June 2, 2001 • 2 min read