13 August 2011

Lion security issue(s) 1.0

Since yesterday I just posted about how secure OS X Lion is, today I took a look around for possible flaws and security issues and guess what I've found. Passware Kit Forensic is a software for passwords recovery, and the last version can retrieve passwords from a Mac OS X Lion computer in a few minutes, regardless of password lenght. The software uses the content that is stored in the system memory and reads it via Firewire. This means that login passwords that are stored in the system memory, even when the computer is in sleep mode or locked, are used to get possibly unauthorized access to a system.
The recommendation to protect yourself from this vulnerability is to simply turn your Mac off and not let it sit in sleep mode on your desk (which seems to be rather common sense to me).
Here Don Resinger from Cnet explains the whole thing in detail.

12 August 2011

The King of the jungle

OS X Lion has been out for almost a month. When it came out different opinions arose on the net, people were confrotning pros and cons and even mentioned "hidden features". Now you all know that I am a Linux lover, but I have to stress the true reason why I suggest to upgrade to Lion: security. One of the moste heard complaints about Lion involves the lack of support for PowerPc applications, but if you're familiar with Unix shell commands here you can find how to overcome the issue.
For what it concerns me, I love it!!!