SecurityInformation
DoorStop, from Open Door Networks, Inc., is a software-based “firewall” product for Macintosh servers. DoorStop is software that you install directly on the servers which you wish to protect. DoorStop is significantly easier to set up and use than a hardware firewall and provides the same capabilities at lower cost.
With DoorStop, you can specify precisely which machines should have access to which services, and you can keep track of both allowed and denied access attempts to those services. DoorStop works well with a wide range of Macintosh-based Internet servers, including …
June 2, 2001 •
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SecuritySecurity Bulletin Issued by Microsoft May 21, 2001
The following is the list of vulnerable products:
Microsoft Word 98 for the Mac
Microsoft Word 2001 for the Mac
Summary
When Microsoft Word opens a RTF (Rich Text Format) file that contains a link to a template, only the RTF file is checked for macros. When a a macro is embedded into the template file that was opened from a link in the RTF file an attacker could set the macro to run automatically and execute commands without your authorization – you even knowing …
May 21, 2001 •
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SecurityInformation
SuperLock is the premier shareware Macintosh security utility. It has been protecting Macs from casual snoopers since 1993, and it protected Macs for two years before that as a program called MacLauncher (which still works properly on the latest Macs!). It can be found on Macs all over the world belonging to students, teachers, governments, and normal, everyday people.
SuperLock 4.0.2 Lite is a slimmed-down version of SuperLock 4.0 Pro. Whereas SuperLock Pro is intended for settings like school labs where multiple people access one machine, SuperLock Lite is for Macs …
May 2, 2001 •
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Securitypublished: September 09, 2000
vulnerable: Intego’s NetBarrier (all versions) running on MaCOS
Discussion
Intego software (www.intego.com) offers a security software package for the Macintosh platform. The software is a firewall utility that allows the user to chose between different security schemes (server only, client only, customized, etc) and block different kind of known DoS (pingflood, synflood, ping of death, etc). One way of actually protecting the user from a remote attack such as a pingflood is to allow the user to block the ip from where the attack is performed. The software either …
September 9, 2000 •
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