Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based graphical interface operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc.
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Mac OS X from an IT Security Practitioners' Perspective?
What does the Mac OS X offer that it has been recently attracting users with IT security focus?
There are sites that specifically focus on "hacking" with OSX, such as machacking.net. Defcon has an ...
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How secure is FileVault 2 while the computer is in sleep mode?
How secure is Apples disk encryption FileVault 2 when someone has physical or network access while the computer in sleep mode or is running a screen saver? Are there ways to circumvent FileVault 2 ...
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How can I secure my log files?
I have a cool tool that displays my syslog and kernellog on my mac's desktop. This has me concerned about what is written in them - I'm staring to feel like they are creating a hole in my privacy. I ...
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Who (which process) is calling curl?
On my mac (Lion), I know that curl is bing used by some unknown process to communicate with a server.
Basically I installed little Snitch and find out that "somebody" is using curl periodically.
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Is Dual Factor possible during boot with whole disk encryption on Mac FileVault 2
Mac FileVault 2 is the default disk encryption for newer Macs that occurs in the EFI pre-boot phase. The challenge here is that most smartcard drivers are loaded after the OS loads.
Is anyone aware ...
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I wonder if my MacBook Pro with OS X got hacked?
Maybe I am getting a little paranoid. Lately my MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.8.2 is behaving a little different the usual.
The last strange thing that happend was that in iTerm2 when I tried to sudo ...
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History of RAT + Strange networking recently… was I hacked again? [closed]
(FYI, my PCs were infected and remote accessed in the past by a friend/stalker, & I’ve reinstalled the network few times already. Recently added Router#2 to double-NAT).
My network has 2 routers ...
