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Sysadmin 101: Securing Leopard

by Robert Palmer (Aug 19th, 2008)

Security researchers at Corsaire have published a PDF whitepaper discussing best practices for securing Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in a networked environment. The whitepaper is free. "While the default installation provides a relatively secure system, it may not always meet organizational security ...

Another Look at Mac OS X Security

by Damien Barrett (Mar 7th, 2006)

I take security exploits seriously. I'm responsible for many hundreds of Macintosh computers that reside in many different environments, not to mention half-a-dozen X-Serves, several of which are production boxes open to the world. When a security exploit is announced, I look to see if it will ...