I’ve been wanting to post this entry for a while, but I didn’t have the opportunity to compel an extra pair of hands to assist with some necessary, salient portions of it until tonight. For those who were hoping Mountain Lion’s AirPlay would be a revolutionary step in the “your content, wherever you want it”… Continue reading
Post Category → OS X
Angry Birds Keynote Theme
If you went to SOURCE Boston this year (2012), attended my security awareness talk and liked the Angry Birds theme to the slides, here’s a copy of the Keynote theme (it’s not really a true Keynote theme as there are divergent slides I’ve included). Here’s a sample: You’re going to need the “Feast of Flesh… Continue reading
Getting Homebrew Working in Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2 with Xcode 4.4 Developer Preview 2
Work & home chaos has me a bit behind in the “ThinkStats…in R” posts, but I “needed” to get some of the homebrew kit working in Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2 (to run some network discovery tools while waiting for #4’s surgery to be done at the hospital). Keying off the great outline by @myobie… Continue reading
Two Alfred Extensions For Retrieving IP Address Information
I’ve been an unapologetic Alfred user since @hatlessec recommended it and have recently been cobbling together quick shell scripts that make life a bit easier. The following ones – lip & rip – copy your local & remote IP addresses (respectively) to your clipboard and also display a Growl message (if you’re a Growl user)…. Continue reading
Three Resolutions For Mac OS X Users
In 2011, we saw a large increase in web site exploits that exposed private user data as well as a breakdown in the trust of SSL (for various reasons) and the introduction of real malware on to the OS X scene. If there were just three things I could ask Mac users to do in… Continue reading
A Fully Operational OS X dbClone
Spent some time today updating the missing bits of the OS X version of the Dropbox cloner I uploaded last night. You can just grab the executable or grab the whole project from the github repository. The app can now backup/restore of local config, clone dropbox configs to a URL/file and also impersonate a captured… Continue reading
dbClone “hack” for OS X
UPDATE: Check out the newer post on additional features. There has been much ado of late about Dropbox security with one of the most egregious issues being how easy it is to surreptitiously “clone” someone else’s Dropbox by obtaining just one piece of data – the host id – from the Dropbox SQLite config.db. Moloch… Continue reading
Remote Assistance/Information Gathering Aid – SupportDetails
I’m putting together a computer & online safety presentation for an upcoming talk at a senior center in Portsmouth (NH) and came across Support Details in my information hunting trek. This site makes it dirt simple to get basic information from whomever you are providing remote support to (a task I’m sure many of us… Continue reading