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MacOS Firewall Needed or Unnecessary?
Coming from Windows to macOS, I was surprised that the firewall was off by default. I immediately turned this feature on. Would this be necessary? Are there some cons to having the firewall on that I ...
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Prevent an application from making any network access on macOS
I want to run an application on macOS, but preventing it from making any type of network access, or any type of internet access.
I have seen the following possibilities:
Use the built-in firewall. ...
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Where am I most vulnerable when running Mac OS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard?
I have a challenge at work, one of our computers is running Mac OS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. We have legacy software that's required to run the business, and so we have to have it online and on our network....
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iptables: block traffic from OSX hotspot
We use Linux for a router and firewall setup and some of our employee makes hotspot from OS X. Is there a way to block this traffic, or control it?
The problem is, that the IP addresses what this ...
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Running windows in virtual machine, should I bother with security?
I'm running Windows in a virtual machine on my mac (via Parallels).
Should I bother installing antivirus, firewall and using other conventional wisdom practices (like don't open unknown .exe etc)?
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Block An IP Address Scanner On Mac [closed]
I'm working on an prototype that can spot network scanners, which is working and it spits out the IP address of the scanners, but I need to block them now.
Is there any way to block an IP address ...
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Strange TCP traffic on Mac OS X from 'rdmd'
I noticed some curious traffic today on my MBP after running lsof. It seemed that a process called rdmd had begun 3 TCP sessions:
rdmd 85842 0 9u IPv4 0xca0e547f0a118fdb 0t0 TCP ...
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Is there a way to get OS X to start a VPN connection before allowing network traffic? [closed]
I'm running OS X 10.8 and have Tunnelblick set up so I can connect to my OpenVPN server at home. I've also used this at $WORK in the past.
When I'm out and about and want to jump on a public network, ...
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Enforcing personal firewall for OS X
We're currently doing PCI compliance, and one of the requirements is that mobile devices that have access to systems involved in processing card data have personal firewall software installed which ...
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How to block all access to Akami deploy servers and Apple push servers?
I no longer blindly trust the numerous connections that occur at night and during the day that always go to "content" and "push" servers like:
a23-33-37-54.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com
st11p01st-...
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Securing firewalls for XAMPP on Mac OS X
I've recently installed XAMPP on my Mac OS X 10.6.8, and this has caused me to reevaluate how I have my firewall setup. Right now I am using the two firewalls that came pre-installed on my computer:
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Mac sending hundreds of packets to gateway
I've got a user on my work network who brings her personal laptop (macbook) in for work. They've been having some horrendously slow network issues on everything past that hub, so I did some packet ...
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What firewall settings on a Macintosh are the most restrictive, while still permitting casual internet use?
I don't want this to be subjective, so I'll try to make the requirements as clear as possible.
On a Mac with Snow Leopard, how can I set up the firewall rulesets that allow ONLY:
Using the internet ...
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