Technoblog.org » apple http://technoblog.org Technoblogging Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:47:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Mac OS X Security Configuration Guides http://technoblog.org/2010/06/mac-os-x-security-configuration-guides/ http://technoblog.org/2010/06/mac-os-x-security-configuration-guides/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:15:00 +0000 jrp http://technoblog.org/?p=91 Apple has now released a 272-pages Security Configuration Guide for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

Security guides for Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5 are also available at the same site:

Mac OS X Security guides:

http://www.apple.com/support/security/guides/

]]> http://technoblog.org/2010/06/mac-os-x-security-configuration-guides/feed/ 0 Mac OS X DNS workaround failed http://technoblog.org/2008/08/mac-os-x-dns-workaround-failed/ http://technoblog.org/2008/08/mac-os-x-dns-workaround-failed/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:22:16 +0000 jrp http://technoblog.org/?p=12 The latest Mac OS X security update (2008-005) failed to fix (or temporarily solve) the DNS vulnerability in the client version of Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.4. The update solved (temporarily) the same problem in Mac OS X server, but somehow Apple forgot to update the client libraries. The source port is still not randomized (but incremented by 1 each time). So, is this really a critical problem? Or should we worry more about DNS servers behind NAT?

Read more details about how the DNS workaround failed in Mac OS X 10.5 or how the DNS Workaround Failed in Mac OS X 10.4

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Read the details about the security update here: Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2008-005

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