StaticUsers.net – Modem Security Flaws

Information

A lot of this information was gathered from other sources on the Internet. This flaw is old. Just not well publicized. Now that it is, we can cover it a little more and explain why it happens, and what damage it can cause. This is a Denial of Service attack in most cases. There are a lot of scripts out there to execute this DoS attack. So watch out.
A excellent source for more information is the Macintouch ModemSecurity Page.

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This effects more than Macintosh Modems. Linux dialup users have seen this …

StaticUsers.net – Apple Powerbooks Security Control Panel

Information

All Apple Powerbook have the option of setting up a security control panel, making it so when you boot you must enter a password before it mounts the drive. Good security for a laptop!

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Good security for those LapTop Users. At lease this program can fool an idiot!

Insecurity

Security Breaches in the Password Security Control Panel: Owners of Powerbook have the option of using the Control Panel “Password Security”. With Password Security turned on the owner of the PowerBook can password-protect his/her computer. This involves a password dialog asking for a password …

Connections and Protections

Connections and Protections
Cable and DSL Connections and Security Measures
What type of connection do I have?

Two new remote access technologies are rapidly growing – cable modems and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) modems/routers. Cable Modems are a shared media. This means that you share a common wire with other people in your neighborhood (see figure one). As more people gain access, the more traffic that is generated over that single wire. Both telco and cable companies are constantly working to increase the amount of bandwidth and service area available to their customers. …

Mac OS X Security – Third lesson by Chevell@SecureMac.com

Macintosh OS X Security – Third Lesson

MAC OS X Now that we’ve covered the basics of computer security in general and an overview of Mac OS X security specifically, it is time to get a bit more in depth. Because some UNIX gurus and elite hackers now know Mac OS X better than most early-adopting Mac fans, caution needs to be taken above and beyond what has already been covered. This is because of the advanced capabilities of the new OS and the open source condition of many of the …

Mac OS X Security – Second Lesson by Chevell@SecureMac.com

Macintosh OS X Security – Second Lesson – Chevell

MAC OS X The early adopters have been using OSX 10.0 for the better part of two weeks now. Early adopters, while not all the UNIX gurus and application developers Apple targeted the release for, are zealous, ambitious and daring- perhaps too much so.

As I stated in my previous Mac OS X Security overview, Mac OS X is a completely new operating system to most Mac users. Its UNIX under pinnings are foreign to the point-and-click community. The interface is certainly foreign …

Column: Macs and Cable Modem

Cable Modem and Macs Security Information
Security Aspect: Macs and Cable Modems

An issue has surfaced which has been ignored and avoided for a long time. In the past, people thought of Macintosh computers as being so secure that you didn’t even need to talk about security. Since the early 90’s, there have been a few web sites dedicated to Macintosh security or hacking, all of which have surfaced, dissolved and expired.

Picture your network. You’re on one line, and your computer is only listening to its own traffic. But computers aren’t smart, …

Snort – Network Intrusion Detection System on Mac OS X

Information

Snort is a lightweight network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more. Snort uses a flexible rules language to describe traffic that it should collect or pass, as well as a detection engine that utilizes a modular plugin architecture. Snort has a real-time alerting capability as …

OpenSSH for Mac OS X – Installation, How to and Custom Packages

What is OpenSSH

OpenSSH is a cost free version of the SSH protocol suite. Many of the users who utilize telnet, ftp, rlogin and other programs may not realize that their passwords are transmitted in plain text (unencrypted) across the Internet. The OpenSSH suite encrypts all data that comes to and from your computer including passwords.

The OpenSSH suite includes many functions and programs. SSH replaces rlogin and telnet, sftp replaces the plain ftp program and rcp is replaced with a enhanced scp program.

Luckily enough Apples new operating system, Mac OS X …