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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: Untrusted networks and how to deal with them

by Mike Schramm (Sep 28th, 2007)

To tell the unvarnished truth, I have to admit that I'm pretty lax on security for my computers. I don't do anything crazy like open email attachments from people I don't know, and I always double check the address bar of websites before I punch my password in. Even so, on a scale of 1 to 10, I'd ...

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: strong passwords

by Scott McNulty (Sep 19th, 2007)

It is a sad fact of life that your Mac is only as secure as your password is strong. A good password is complex enough to thwart both idle hands ('I wonder if Scott is as dumb as he looks. I bet his password is 12345. Let me try it and find out') and dastardly hackers out to steal your personal ...

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: Crouching user, hidden folder

by Dave Caolo (Sep 17th, 2007)

Here are a few very simple steps you can take to enhance your Mac's security - not exactly the U.S. Government's Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm, but enough to thwart many end-users. Create a guest user account Occasionally, someone will ask me, "May I quickly check my email on your ...

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