Mac and Mac Security¶
Mac and Mac Security¶
How to get old versions of macOS, Apple Support
Security Threat Analysis: Interview With Dino A. Dai Zovi: Introduction, by Alan Dang, Tom’s Hardware, April 6, 2009
Security Threat Analysis: Interview With Dino A. Dai Zovi: Introduction, by Alan Dang, Tom’s Hardware, April 6, 2009
Dino Dai Zovi: Mac OS Xploitation, Scribd, March 2009
Dino Dai Zovi on The Network Security Podcast, Securosis, April 1, 2009
Mac OS X Security Configuration and Auditing¶
- Artefacts and tricks for Mac OS X, by sud0man, May 23, 2015
GitHub sud0man/pac4mac (Automatically exported from https://code.google.com/p/pac4mac)
- DEF CON 11 - Jay Beale - Locking Down Mac OS X
Bastille-linux for Mac OS X (it ain’t just for Linux anymore!)
How to encrypt your Time Machine backups, by Topher Kessler
OS X Yosemite: Choose a backup disk and set encryption options
About FileVault, Apple Computer
Take Your Mac OS X Security to NSA Standards, by Larry Chafin
Mac OS X Security Configuration for Version 10.5 Leopard: Second Edition, Apple Computer
Safety. Built right in., Mac OS X security page by Apple
Mac OS X Hardening Tips for Default Installation of Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”, National Security Agency
Common Criteria Tools and Administration Guide, Apple Computer
Mac OS X Security Configuration Guides slide deck, Riley
Mac OS X Firewalling¶
Firewalk X (Shareware)
icefloor for Yosemite
mfw - multiple firewall configurations utility (free command line utility)
Process Tracing and Debugging¶
Top 10 DTrace scripts for Mac OS X, by Brendan Gregg, October 10, 2011
Mac OS X Debugging Magic, Apple web site
DTrace: [even better than] strace for OS X, by Colin Jones, November 6, 2015
RE:Trace - Applied Reverse Engineering on OS X, by Tiller Beauchamp and David Weston, DEFCON presentation, Feb 8, 2008
General Mac info¶
- WiFi diagnostics
How to Find the Best Wi-Fi Channel with Wireless Diagnostics in Mac OS X, OSXDaily, December 11, 2013
- Homebrew (“The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)”)
Downgrade to a Previously-installed Brew Formula, by Jake Trent, November 2, 2017
Homebrew install specific version of formula? (to fix broken
coreutils8.28, which breaksbyobuinhomebrewSeptember 27, 2017, dobrew switch coreutils 8.27)
- byobu (“Byobu is a GPLv3 open source text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer”)
Learn Byobu while listening to Mozart, YouTube video by Dustin Kirkland
Install byobu on Mac OSX, MacAppStore
Using F-Keys in Mac OS X, by Joshua Smith, January 31, 2007
OS X Byobu Vertical Split, by Chris Jeon, Stackoverflow post, October 3, 2014
tmux mouse mode in macOS, by Gleb Reys, Unix Tutorial, May 30, 2020
- Services on OS X
Schedule jobs using launchd, by Nathan Grigg, July 24, 2012
Mac OS X: Launchd Is Cool, by Paul Annesley, September 28, 2012
About Daemons and Services, Mac Developer Library
Creating Launch Daemons and Agents, Mac Developer Library
NGINX: OSX Launchd, NGINX web site
Keep applications from stealing focus when opening in OS X, by Topher Kessler, July 29, 2011
- System tuning and repair
Fix corrupt iMovie library, YouTube video by Shane McGray, December 3, 2013
Spotlight mdworker.shared file flooding system log; removal stops search index from working properly?, by godzfire, July 31, 2020
Reclaim Disk Space with hdiutil & Sparse Bundle Disk Images for Mac OS X
Repair Time Machine sparsebundle that will no longer mount, apple.stackexchange.com post, February 12, 2012
- Discussion, Apple Support web site
Permanently set printer User Code - Lanier LD533C, Apple Support Communities, October 28, 2014
Setting up firmware password protection in Mac OS X, Apple Computer
- Upgrading/replacing a hard drive or SSD
Cloning Your Data to a New Hard Drive in Mac OS X, MacSales.com web site
How to clone Mac OS X using Disk Utility, By Brad_TheCru, October 15, 2013
How to replace the hard drive when using Yosemite, by keg55, Apple Support Communities, January 8, 2015
Make a bootable clone of your boot drive, by ds store, Apple Support Communities, November 4, 2013
The very best VNC client for Mac OS X is right under your nose!, by David the Expert, April 16, 2012
How to Assign a File Type to an Application in Mac OS X Lion, by Bob LeVitus
Preview: OS X’s Secret Weapon Image Editor, by Paula DuPont, April 11, 2013
In OS X Lion, LANG is not set to utf8, how fix?, Stackoverflow.com
2013 Mac Project Management Software Product Comparisons, Top Ten Reviews
GeekTool, Lifehacker.com
Disable Automount or Mount All MSDOS filesystems in RO (avoid auto-mounting devices when doing forensics on a Mac)
Open Firmware (OF): An Introduction for users, by Andrew J. Brehm
OS X 10.2: silc-client 0.9.5.1 in fink (SILC installation instructions)