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Printers compatible with case sensitive hardened Mountain Lion
For security improvment, I'm running all my MacOS X on case sensitive
and journaled file systems (then any ill written program which one day open a file named conf, and the day after try to open it ...
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How should I use VPN on a Mac to prevent compromise before the VPN starts?
As most experienced users will have heard, using a Mac in a public untrusted Wi-Fi can be potentially harmful. A tool like Firesheep1 has made it very easy to intercept unencrypted communication.
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Do Java security settings in Mountain Lion cause java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError?
In a nutshell, I have a java app that crashes in java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError and I'm looking to see if my OS/Java settings might be causing this error.
I cannot change the security settings ...
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“Airplane Mode” in OS X. Alternative command for `rfkill`?
This question is an exact duplicate of this post from
superuser.exchange.com. I believe this is a valid question for both of sites
and hope I am not (if any) violating stackexchange policies.
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Remove app from Location Services?
I've used App Cleaner which clears preference and associated files, but I can't clear it from Location Services permissions list in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy.
Any idea how ...
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How can I ensure only “whitelisted” applications run on OS X
There is a security technique called whitelisting (available in Windows 7) that ensures that only specific applications and processes will run.
This is different from email whitelisting and only ...
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How to determine which traffic goes over the PPTP VPN?
I setup a PPTP VPN on mac os x lion, on the advanced tab I do not have the send all traffic over VPN connection checked. I only want traffic to a specific server connected to go through the vpn, ...
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Is there a way to limit how frequently you can start an application?
On my phone, I'm am enjoying a new tweak called MailStop which sole purpose is to limit my reflex of checking my mail far too often. I have set it to not allow me to start the Mail app for five hours ...
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Can I safely remove /usr/bin/java from Mountain Lion 10.8.2?
If I do so, will something, such as a service, break?
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Will it work well to use a .dmg as an encrypted folder?
I have a folder containing files including Wills, Trusts, personal financial statements etc. Most of these files are word docs, excel spreadsheets, PDF's and jpegs. I would like to protect this folder ...
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EFI reinstall or checksum to ckeck if its manipulated?
I have bought a used mid-2011 Mac Mini. How can I prove that the EFI isn't manipulated? I would like to use the Mini for online banking and other secure work like that.
I've made a internet recovery ...
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When will I use the FileVault 2 recovery key?
I enabled FileVault 2 on my Mac, and I remember that it gave me a recovery key. When will I use this recovery key?
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Activity & Hardware Audit
I have an iMac running OS X 10.7 that stands in a public space. Recently, someone stole a Mighty Mouse that was connected to it. I know the time period when it happened so I was wondering if I can ...
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external drive network security
I work in an office where all user accounts are on a server, the admin has access to all the screens and devices though the network.
How can I protect the drive I connect to my system from my snoopy ...
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How can I tell if I'm viewing a secure page in Safari (6.0.2)?
Safari hides the http: or https:, so how can I tell if I'm viewing a page over SSL? Some pages show issuer information in the URL bar, but not all of them. So the ones that show issuer info are ...
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How can I keep my Mac awake AND locked?
I want to leave my Mac awake overnight so it syncs 4GB of data from Dropbox. I need to prevent the machine from going to sleep because that pauses the Dropbox sync
I've been using Caffeine to keep ...
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Can Gatekeeper be disabled via terminal in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion?
How can you disable Gatekeeper via Terminal Commands in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion? I am looking to replicate the Security & Privacy preference pane selection to allow applications downloaded from ...
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Firewall Being turned off
Is it possible for an application to close my OSX firewall? Several times I have opened the security pref and I find FireWall off while I do not remember turning it off. For antivirus I use ClamXav ...
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How do I automatically connect to a VPN when using Wi-Fi in OS X?
The FBI issued a warning regarding hotel Wi-Fi access points, and any other public access point.
I'd like to make sure my apple device always uses a VPN when using Wi-Fi. That way even if an attacker ...
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How can I enable fingerprint authentication on a Mac? What compatible scanners are available?
Do you know if there's a way to have fingerprint authentication on Mac? If so, is there any scanner compatible available?
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How do System Preferences remain unlocked?
To make certain modifications to system preferences, you first need to unlock the preference pane. Some of these changes are done on a system level and the command-line equivalent would need to be ...
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Avoiding malware in recommendations?
Occasionally, answers on this site include software recommendations. Let’s assume a "legitimate developer" pretends to have created a useful application that is (secretly) capable of doing harm. How ...
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How long does Apple provide support for Mac OS X?
I am currently using Apple 10.6 (Snow Leopard). How long will Snow Leopard be supported for? Does Apple provide an end-of-life policy in writing?
I have read that Apple tends to only provide security ...
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How does Apple's Power Nap interact with File Vault?
If a machine is periodically waking up to check for updates with Power Nap, does this also mean the disk encryption keys are always in RAM? If so, this makes a DMA attack against a "sleeping" Mac ...
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How to delete or untrust all root certificates in OSX?
In Keychain Access it looks like you can only untrust/delete certificates one at a time.
But there are a lot of certificates I want to get rid of. How can I take care of them all at the same time?
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Password protect MacBook while keeping iTunes running
So I want to prevent anyone from messing with iTunes, or anything on my MacBook actually. How can I password protect it without losing the sound?
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Checking apps for a “GateKeeper” Developer ID?
Is there any way for a Mac user currently running Snow Leopard or Lion to check, maybe from the Terminal command-line, whether some application downloaded from the net was digitally signed with an ...
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Does activating auto-login compromise secure password storage?
or:
Does enabling auto-login in OS X add any additional security risks?
How does this auto-login work? I'm not a security expert, but I imagine that such a procedure would require the password to be ...
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scheduled account lock Mac OS X
You can set your Mac OS X account to automatically lock the screen so that the password is required after a certain amount of time of inactivity, but can you do the same thing using a schedule (say at ...
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Where to find the Mac OS X Lion security configuration guide?
Most Mac OS X releases have very nice security configuration guides, but Lion is not in the list. Is this document available somewhere else on Apple's site, or is there a roughly-equivalent document ...
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Hide/Block System Preference Panes?
I have just discovered that System Preference panes such as Mouse and Keyboard cannot be locked, this is a problem as one user could log in change the strings and then another user would log in and ...
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How do I block OS X's auto detection of shared drives?
I'm a little concerned that I have a bunch of drives from other people's computers showing up in Finder whenever I'm at a company site. I don't plan to access those at all.
I have sharing disabled, ...
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How to limit my Mac's exposure to malware?
With OS X malware increasingly in the news (see the Flashback Trojan issue), is there anything that I should do to increase the security of my Mac and reduce my exposure to malware?
What I'm doing ...
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What is Apple's policy for supporting security updates on older versions of OS X?
Does Apple have a policy regarding how long they will continue to release and support security fixes for each OS X release? I've looked around the Internet, and found some forum posts that claim ...
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Is this possible? Prevent Live-Linux from booting and grabbing your files without encrypting your disc?
I am a medium-experienced Power User with knowledge about most of the stuff (studying this since two years) and I know something about how Linux and Windows work; I have screwed up countless ...
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How can I install Adobe Flash manually or without giving root access?
Background info:
I've locked down my /Library folder so even the admin group can't write (only root can).
The Adobe update app opens the password dialog when I click "install". Is it possible to ...
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How can I report security vulnerabilities for open source OSX applications?
In the event of finding a security vulnerability in the Linux world, the procedure involved would be to report the vulnerability...
...to the developers or the maintainers of the package in a ...
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What user behavior is necessary to make Filevault 2 maximally secure?
Situation: Filevault 2 passwords can be stolen
Passware has released the Passware Kit Forensic 11.3 which is able to steal the FileVault 2 password from the RAM by performing a DMA Attack via the ...
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What traffic is sent over the build-in VPN connection?
Under System Preferences > Network > VPN > Advanced > Options I can choose to "Send all traffic over VPN connection".
Contrariwise, this would mean that if this option is not enabled ...
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How do I configure a VPN in Lion?
I've tried to configure VPN in Lion (both L2TP and PPTP), but it never connected successfully.
The same VPN works fine in Windows 7 and the iPad and other mobile devices, so I think it could be a ...
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Securely erase deleted files?
I was wondering if it's possible to make sure that some files I've deleted in the past on my mac are really gone?
I know about the option in Finder (Finder -> Secure Empty Trash...), but what if I ...
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Problems with Apple's Security Update 2011-005 (Lion)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why folders keep shifting their positions?
Today I downloaded Apple Security Update 2011-005 for Lion (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1447). However, I got some issues ...
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Why does OS X warn me before running an app downloaded from the Internet?
I'm always hearing that there is practically no malware threat in Mac OS: clearly claims that there is no Mac malware are exaggerated, but the received wisdom is that they are a negligible threat and ...
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Looking for advice setting up a new Mac Mini with Lion Server
I am setting up a new Mac Mini server which will serve as a web server (with Apache and MySQL) as well as some other pieces of functionality. I have seen little on securing OS X for such a scenario ...
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Is is possible to prevent OS X firmware password removal?
The title pretty much says it all.
I have set a firmware password on my MacBook Pro just to make things a bit harder in case of theft. Still, by pulling the RAM and resetting the PRAM, it would be ...
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Can FileVault show the login window as 'name and password', not 'list of users'?
Normally, Mac OS X lets you choose to show the login screen as a list of users (you click to enter the password), or two text fields (you enter the username and password):
But, I use FileVault 2. ...
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Internet Sharing supports WEP but not WPA?
I am trying to make a WiFi hotspot through my MacBook. It has Snow Leopard 10.6.7 on it.
The thing is that when I go to sharing and then configure internet sharing, it only gives the choice of using ...
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Is there a way to password protect individual apps?
Is it possible to password protect a specific Mac application?
For example, I am interested in protecting Mail because even if you cannot retrieve new emails, you still can read all the already ...
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Is it safe to provide your raw system profile to software vendors for tech support?
I have a very expensive piece of software that began crashing after a recent system update, which presumably broke something. Unfortunately, the system logs the app throws aren't detailed enough for ...
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Default installation folder
I am unhappy with the inherent insecurity of having to type in my system.install.root.user password when installing some applications.
I realize this is necessary to install to the system wide ...
