The new revision of TrueCrypt - Version 5.0(a) — has now been released for Mac. Downloads are available here. I haven’t had a change to work with it since I’m traveling, but initial word from some colleagues is that it works as expected.
Got to do some testing with TrueCrypt on the Mac - and immediately hit a wall. One of the unique features of TrueCrypt is the ability to create a hidden TrueCrypt volume inside of another TrueCrypt volume. The idea is that if you were forced to reveal a passphrase, you give up the passphrase to […]
A staple on the Windows OS for quite a while, TrueCrypt has finally been ported to OS X. While it doesn’t have a lot of polish yet, it does indeed seem to work like the Windows version does. TrueCrypt has the ability to create an encrypted volume — which can […]
Part two (part one is here) of an expanding series where I’m providing an overview of some of the InfoSec tools that I use on a daily basis on my Mac. Down the line I’ll expand this series and write up each tool in more detail.
Nessus
Despite the controversy about Nessus going proprietary […]
Every blog has a ‘Top 10′ list of something — and I’m fairly sure that someone has probably even done a “Top xx Mac Security Tools” list, but I figured I’d go with the list of the tools that I use the most, and then as time permits, go through and write up something about […]
This is the last Leopard firewall post for a while…
Over the last week or two of Leopard firewall discussions across the web, quite a bit of info has come out about how the Leopard firewall works, and what’s going on ‘under the hood’ when you change the options under System Preferences.
The firewall used by OS […]