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Archive for November, 2007

OS X Security Configuration Guidelines

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Since it’s a common question, I figured I’d link some of the more common Configuration Guides for OS X hardening. These are some of the more ‘official’ ones — I’ll post a collection of personal and Blog-related ones some other time. Just a note: None of these are updated for [...]

Leopard’s Spots: The Firewall Debacle

Monday, November 5th, 2007

As of today it’s been a week since the (in)Famous Heise article was published online that slammed the then-newly-released MacOS X Leopard firewall.    The initial article in German was translated to English and the translation has been blamed for at least part of the the problem, but the Heise article made some very damning commentary [...]