Information Virex has been a leader in Anti-Virus solutions for the MacOS. This is the first beta for Mac OS X and only contains the command line scanner, we are assured in the near future we will see the familiar Virex interface. Because this is…
June 2, 2001 • 1 min readSymantecs’ Norton AntiVirus (NAV) 7 has become a trusted name amongst Macintosh users for virus protection over the past few years. SecureMac put this program through our five lock testing and the results came out rather interesting. During installation we were greeted with a screen…
June 2, 2001 • 3 min readInformation All Apple Powerbook have the option of setting up a security control panel, making it so when you boot you must enter a password before it mounts the drive. Good security for a laptop! Views Good security for those LapTop Users. At lease this…
June 2, 2001 • 4 min readInformation Easy, Foolproof protection. DiskLock sets up much faster than other security programs. Instead of having to select each file, you can choose entire folders with a single click. And DiskLock is virtually impossible to bypass–it loads before the system software, so unauthorized users can’t…
June 2, 2001 • 2 min readInformation At Ease popularity has kind of died down. I remember schools using it but now they don’t seem to. It’s a product I never liked. Found it rather insecure. Millions of ways to hack around it. Views The New Version, Well You need to…
June 2, 2001 • 2 min readEmail encryption problems should be solved in Sonata by Dennis Sellers, dsellers@maccentral.com June 15, 1999, 9:45 am ET If you’re using a free Mac email application, you inherently have a lack of secure encryption as Andrew Jung, a computer science student at Camosun College (Victoria…
June 2, 2001 • 4 min readInformation NetBus is a remote administration tool for the Windows Operating system. When this program was first released it was known as a ‘hacker tool’ where a user can gain remote access to a computer with the program installed. This program is like the CDC…
June 2, 2001 • 1 min readPassword weakness in Internet Config in MacOS What is Internet Config? From Internet Config FAQ: “The Internet Configuration System was designed to make your life easier by reducing the number of times which you need to enter your Internet preferences into the various preferences dialogs…
June 2, 2001 • 6 min readInformation Euroda is a widely supported Email client for both Macs and PC’s. Pro Version supports multiple accounts and personalities. Views Eudora has grown a lot from user suggestions. They have a nice BETA SITE where you can beta test their PRO version. Download Versions…
June 2, 2001 • 2 min readInformation Let me clarify something for all of you. BackOrifice, NetBus – Those are PC trojans. They will not break your macintosh. The tools described are to control a PC infected with BackOrifice from a MACINTOSH. Yes a Mac. Don’t fear Macs don’t have registries…
June 2, 2001 • 1 min readConnections and Protections Cable and DSL Connections and Security Measures What type of connection do I have? Two new remote access technologies are rapidly growing – cable modems and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) modems/routers. Cable Modems are a shared media. This means that you share…
June 2, 2001 • 6 min readInformation John Copeland, a professor at Georgia Tech, noticed his computer sending packets when he was not conducting any traffic. This Mac Attack effects computers running MacOS 9 with a internet or network connection. A FAQ Page has been setup to help you understand the…
June 2, 2001 • 2 min readGrouchySmurf is the first public release of an ICMP broadcast attack for the MacOS. Last night the application was released by Freaks Macintosh Archives a hacker related website for the macintosh community. They wrote a review/press release on the application to hype it. Now it…
June 2, 2001 • 4 min readInformation Do you know that every single postscript file that you print on a Macintosh using the Print To File function actually secretly puts your email address in the file? Pretty scary, isn’t it? Problem Apple LaserWriter driver embeds the user email address within the…
June 2, 2001 • 1 min readMac OS X Single User Mode Root Access – CodeSamurai Forward There’s always the constant battle between user-friendliness and security. Apple has known about this vulnerability for some time now; and back in the days of OpenStep, a patch to that OS was released to…
June 2, 2001 • 5 min readMacintosh OS X Security – Third Lesson MAC OS X Now that we’ve covered the basics of computer security in general and an overview of Mac OS X security specifically, it is time to get a bit more in depth. Because some UNIX gurus and…
June 2, 2001 • 5 min readMacintosh OS X Security – Second Lesson – Chevell MAC OS X The early adopters have been using OSX 10.0 for the better part of two weeks now. Early adopters, while not all the UNIX gurus and application developers Apple targeted the release for, are…
June 2, 2001 • 6 min readIssue: Netscape Navigator/Communicator stores passwords in plain text remote: no local: yes published: September 12, 2000 vulnerable: Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4.x (and all versions?) Security Issue: There’s been a lot of security advisories and such about cookies security, but since the mac security is often very…
June 2, 2001 • 1 min readSecurity Auditing Tools for the Macintosh In today’s media you only hear about hackers rummaging through data stealing important information. You hear about how your security becomes more and more insecure. All these hackers are hitting websites, stealing passwords and credit card numbers. Yes, it’s…
June 2, 2001 • 3 min readInformation Keystroke loggers are common amongst hackers all around the world. Keystroke loggers do exactly what it says, it is a small program that logs to a file everything that you type and the person who installed the logger can retrieve the log whenever he/she…
June 2, 2001 • 3 min read