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Hello, and welcome to the MSKB (MacShadows Knowledge Base) wiki. A vast archive of knowledge gathered by the MacShadows.com, TSF, #UGM, & machacking.net communities.

Please sign up at our "Sign Up Page". Afterwards, for your convenience, our staff has created an article to help you contribute to our wiki "howto".

Also please make sure you view our all pages article for a complete site-map of the MSKB.

Please remember to contribute, as we can only grow with your help.

Featured Article

Hardening Mac OS X

This article describes several quick steps for hardening Mac OS X computers after the system has been installed. It should not be considered a thorough and complete guide for hardening as it only refers to system specific options.

Service hardening will be treated superficially and it is considered out of scope as not all of us will always run the same services.

General Security Settings

Under System Settings -> Security you'll find the first approach to secure your box. Just make sure the following options are checked:

  • Require password to wake this computer from sleep or screen saver
  • Disable automatic login
  • Use secure virtual memory

We'll review the FileVault settings later. Along with the required password to wake up the computer from sleep and screen saver we should configure the screensaver to an appropriate time (10 - 20 minutes of inactivity should be enough).

It's also a good idea to configure one of the Hot Corners to activate your screensaver in case you need to go out in a rush but you can't put your computer to sleep.

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News

  • MSKB to be upgraded posted by Spratt_ on 2008-06-26 01:05 (-6 GMT)

FYI, Siph0n and I have a large upgrade and revamp planned for the MSKB. A few tidbits of news:

Huge thanks to Smilers for his continued efforts in maintaining the MSKB in top shape! Please be on the lookout for Spam, until we are able to add a CAPTCHA to the wiki.

Some current articles in the spotlight are: ARDAgent exploit & Com.apple.SystemLoginItems.plist Exploit

Be sure to check out MacHacking.net, their front page has highlighted some of our best articles.

  • Pages in Need of Editing posted by Smilers on 2007-01-25 16:25 (GMT)

I would just like to say thank you to all of you who have contributed to this site, I think it has become a wonderful resource for the underground community.

I have just gone through the pages I thought were in need of a bit of a cleanup and added them to the Category:Cleanup so if you have a bit of time on your hands please stop by and help maintain this wonderful resource.


News items have been shortened. Read more on the news page.

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