Tag: security

Centrify’s Active Directory-Based Security for Lion

Centrify’s Active Directory-Based Security for Lion

by | Jul 21, 2011 | | 0 |

Centrify Corporation today announced that its DirectControl for Mac offering supports the just-released Mac OS X Lion operating system with Active Directory-based authentication, access control and Group Policy for users of Apple’s latest OS X Lion release. IT administrators can easily manage authentication, authorization and configuration of Mac OS X systems, as well as lock down the user’s desktop environment, enabling the Mac to be easily integrated to the most complex Windows environments.

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Lion, Security Updates are Automatic

Lion, Security Updates are Automatic

by | Jul 12, 2011 | | 0 |

Posted by Greg Mills

Lion is due to ship any day now. The Mac computer’s integration with the internet is becoming more and more intertwined with Lion. Security updates, as we know them, are about to become a memory. Lion automatically will push security updates in the background.

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Apple’s iOS Platform New Security Hole Found

Apple’s iOS Platform New Security Hole Found

by | Jul 8, 2011 | | 0 |

Posted by Greg Mills

Security for internet connected computing devices is an ongoing thing. The recent “jailbreak” software for breaking iOS devices also breaks iOS security for all of us as the vulnerability of un-jail-broken devices is exposed in the jail break code that is now posted on line.

The fear is that remote control of iPhone, iPad and iPod touches could occur using that code. This sort of problem is much more common in the Android platform but computers are computers and the systems are only as good as the state of the art when they are released.

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Apple releases new security update

by | Sep 8, 2004 | | 0 |

Apple today released Security Update 2004-09-07 via the Mac OS X Software Update preference pane. The update includes several security enhancements and is recommended for all users. This update includes the following updated components: CoreFoundation, IPSec, Kerberos, libpcap, lukemftpd, NetworkConfig, OpenLDAP, OpenSSH, PPPDialer, rsync, Safari, and tcpdump.

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Apple criticized for security advisories

by | May 5, 2004 | | 0 |

Digital security firm @Stake has criticized Apple for not adequately labeling the seriousness of the security flaws described in its advisories, reports CNET News.com. Five Mac OS X vulnerabilities were released Monday that affect various components of the operating system. The firm said the greatest threat is a buffer overflow in the Apple file-sharing system that could allow a remote attacker to take over control of the system.

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Apple releases new Jaguar/Panther security update

by | Feb 24, 2004 | | 0 |

Apple on Monday released Security Update 2004-02-23 for Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) and Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) via the Software Update preference pane. According to the release notes, the update delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all users. Apple said Security Update 2004-02-23 includes the following updated components: DiskArbitration, IPSec, Point-to-Point-Protocol, and tcpdump.

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Apple releases new OS X security update

by | Jan 27, 2004 | | 0 |

Apple on Monday released Security Update 2004-01-26 for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther via the Software Update preference pane. According to the release notes, the update offers several security enhancements and is recommended for all users. Apple said Security Update 2004-01-26 includes the following updated components: Apache 1.3, Classic, Mail, Safari, and Windows File Sharing.

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Apple releases new OS X Security Update

by | Dec 20, 2003 | | 0 |

Apple has released Security Update 2003-12-19, which delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Mac OS X users. According to the release notes, the update includes the following components: AFP Server, ASN.1 Decoding for PKI, cd9660.util, Directory Services, fetchmail, fs_usage, rsync, and System Initialization. The 3.6MB download is available via the Software Update preference pane.

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Apple releases security update for Panther

by | Oct 29, 2003 | | 0 |

Apple today released Security Update 2003-10-28 via the Mac OS X Software Update preference pane. According to the company, the update addresses a potential vulnerability in the implementation of QuickTime Java in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and Mac OS X Server 10.3 that could allow unauthorized access to a system.

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