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Secure Your Mac: What's new in Leopard security?

by Scott McNulty (Oct 17th, 2007)

Mac users everywhere are salivating over the approaching release of Leopard (this humble blogger counts himself amongst that number). We all know about the flashy new additions to the OS that Leopard will bring, but what about security? Apple has a whole section detailing the new security features ...

Secure your Mac: Disable automatic login

by Scott McNulty (Oct 9th, 2007)

Most doors have locks on them. Shocking, I know, but they are there for a good reason: to keep people out. It would be nice if we all lived in a Norman Rockwellian world where our doors would never be locked and we would all be busy painting self portraits, but that's not the world we live in. ...

Secure your Mac: SecuriKey USB dongle

by Mat Lu (Sep 27th, 2007)

As we recently mentioned with regards to the newly available Mac support for the Eikon USB fingerprint scanner, hardware security peripherals on the Mac have been rather thin on the ground. But coming on the heels of the Eikon, GT Security has announced an update to their SecuriKey USB security ...

Secure your Mac: Eikon biometric security

by Mat Lu (Sep 25th, 2007)

TUAW has lately been trying to help you Secure Your Mac, and while a few options have been available, biometric security is one area in which the Mac has seemed to lag behind the Windows side. Now UPEK has released a preview of the Mac version of their Eikon Digital Privacy Manager. The software ...

Secure your Mac: Do as the Federales do

by Michael Rose (Sep 20th, 2007)

More security notes from the underground TUAW vault. Up until Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, you could see your tax dollars at work very readily, as the National Security Agency published OS-specific guidelines for hardening your OS X installation -- mostly commonsense items like "use strong passwords" and ...

Secure your Mac: Keychain on the move

by Michael Rose (Sep 18th, 2007)

Victor's Mac 101 yesterday gave you the basics of the Keychain, so we all know what it's good for -- keeping your passwords and credentials in a convenient, automatic and protected file. Still, that's an awful lot of passwordy goodness to keep in one place, especially if some of those passwords are ...

Secure Your Mac: a new TUAW series

by Scott McNulty (Sep 5th, 2007)

Many in the Mac community feel as though OS X, and Macs in general, benefit from some special aura of security. It is true that there are no known viruses for OS X in the wild, but that doesn't mean that we Mac users can let down our guard. We live in an age where more and more of our personal ...

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