Archive for the 'OS X' Category

OS X Security and Hardening

Here’s a document I put together to help people harden their OS X computers.

This document is provided without warranty — use it at your own risk. It may be downloaded for free for personal use. Do NOT re-post it or its content anywhere. Thanks

Download:

OS X Hardening.pdf

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OS X Preferences

The OS X System Preferences Control Panel let you change lots of stuff.  But surely all those things could be changed without the benefit of the GUI by directly manipulating the preference files.  Have you ever wondered where all those files are?  I have… so here’s the result of some of my reverse engineering.  It’s […]

Radmind is an open source project developed by the University of Michigan,
which describes it as "a suite of Unix command-line tools and a server
designed to remotely administer the file systems of multiple Unix machines."
It offers solid counter-intrusion protection by keeping your computers in a known
state, but I found the documentation to be lacking. While […]