Sophos suggests…. for more safety – get a Mac

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Analyzing the state of the computer world…. Sophos Antivirus has suggested that consumers consider a Mac for their next PC if they’re concerned about the increasing swarm of malware targetting Windows PC’s. The main point being there are no ACTIVE malware threats against Mac systems and Windows still seems to be increasingly targetted. Mac will […]

Exploit in the wild for Apple vulnerability

Friday, June 30th, 2006

A couple days ago there was a release of Mac OS X 10.4.7 which addressed several security flaws. There is now an exploit published for one of these vulnerabilities. The attacker using this exploit could gain remote root (administrator) access to the machine. So, don’t delay any further on patching. No system is a fortress […]

Apple Mac OS X updates

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

There are several issues fixed by a bundle of updates for OS X (for 10.4 up to 10.4.6). The new release is 10.4.7 There are a number of issues fixed in addition to at least 3 security related problems. Incidents.org has more details. I know many Mac users feel the “aura of invincibility”, but…. keeping […]

Adobe Acrobat security update for Mac, Windows

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

Adobe has released updates to Acrobat Reader for Windows and Mac systems. I don’t see any mention of linux in the advisories, but I do see that the linux version available for download is now 7.0.8 as well (which is the same as the Mac/Windows versions.) *(Apparently they’re pushing more Yahoo! integration in this release […]

Google Video Player for Mac released

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

The Official Google blog passes along the release of the Google Video Player for Mac. I’m impressed at the universal binary which means it should work on either PPC or Intel architecture. Here’s the download page.    Send article as PDF   

Remote tech support with anything – would I do it?

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

I’ve tried to ask myself if I’d trust someone enough to let them run a remote session on my own desktop to solve a problem. I think the answer is “it depends”. If you think about it, I do tech support for home users quite a bit and they let me come into their homes. […]

Multi-OS virus?

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

The multi-OS virus may be a proof of concept, but it could be a sign of bad things to come. Let’s face it, there have been viruses that have taken advantage of multiple ways of spreading (email/open network shares/instant messengers…) It would almost make sense that even though it’s POC…. it may be quickly incorporated […]

Network Security – Defenses against arp spoofing

Monday, January 30th, 2006

So, we’ve spent a couple articles talking about arp spoofing. It sounds really bad, it’s a frighteningly easy way to do a “mitm” or man in the middle attack and anyone using arp spoofing could capture ALL network traffic including passwords. There’s got to be an easy fix right? Um…. well. This is not something […]

Network Security – Arp spoofing

Monday, January 30th, 2006

So…. what is arp spoofing (poisoning)…. and what are it’s implications? ARP spoofing involves tricking a machine into thinking that you’re machine is, yet another. Let’s put this in IP address terms. Let’s say that 192.168.0.1 is the default gatway on the network and 192.168.0.150 is our target. We are given another network address – […]

Network Security – Hub or Switch?

Monday, January 30th, 2006

So, for those that have a little bit of knowledge about network hardware, you’ve probably heard this. “You can’t sniff switched networks”…. wrong…. let’s see what this is about. Older networking hardware was dominated by what’s called a hub. This was basically a “dumb” device that when it received data, it would retransmit the data […]

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