• Mac OS X,  Unix

    Hello Cruel Perl

    touch helloperl.pl Open helloperl.pl and paste the following in there: print "Hello Cruel Perln"; Make sure you have executable permissions for helloperl.pl. Then run: perl helloperl.pl

  • Mac OS X Server

    Address Book Server "Groups"

    I use the term “groups” loosely here. On my list of features that are needed in Lion Server (a much smaller since the advent of 10.7.3 btw) is the fact that Address Book Server doesn’t have groups, resources or whatever you want to call a logical structure that is a place for groups of users to keep contacts whose access can be limited to only certain users. The Address Book client fully understands such constructs, given that it separates the GAL from a user’s contacts and that user’s can themselves have groups of contacts. This area is a huge miss. The reason this annoys me is that you have the…

  • iPhone,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    Podcasting in Lion Server

    There have been a number of articles on using the Podcast Producer service in Snow Leopard and previous operating systems. The Podcast Producer service itself in Lion remains unchanged. It still needs shared storage (e.g. NFS, Xsan, etc), Xgrid, Kerberos (for Xgrid) and while seeming to sit atop a house of cards, is one of the coolest and most complex services in Mac OS X Server. But there have been a lot of environments where Podcast Producer seemed out of reach where it shouldn’t have. If you have a single server, why do you need shared storage, a truly scalable grid computing cluster and all that complex workflow goodness at…

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    Pentesting Mac OS X Server With Nessus 5

    One of my favorite tools for penetration testing is Nessus from Tenable Network Security. Nessus 5 is the latest release in the family of vulnerability scanners that is probably amongst the most prolific. Nessus 5 does discovery, configuration auditing, profiling, looks at patch management and performs vulnerability analysis on a variety of platforms. Nessus can also run on a Linux, Windows or Mac OS X and can be used to scan and keep track of vulnerabilities for practically any platform, including Mac OS X. To install Nessus, go to the Nessus site and click on the Download button, around the middle of the page. Agree to the download agreement and…

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    Google Open Sources FileVault 2 Code (aka Cauliflower Vest)

    In an email to the Mac Enterprise list, Ed Marczak of Google announced that Google is open sourcing their much heralded FileVault 2 code, once again proving how awesome the Mac team at Google really is: I’m very happy to announce Cauliflower Vest: a new, open source product that is an end-to-end Mac OS X FileVault 2 recovery key escrow solution. In short, this brings missing features that allow you to better manage FileVault 2 machines. Cauliflower Vest allows you to: – Forcefully enable FileVault 2 encryption. – Automatically escrow recovery keys. – Delegate secure access to recovery keys so that volumes may be unlocked or reverted. If you *just*…

  • iPhone,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    iOS Device Sales Outpace All Macs Ever (in 2011 alone)

    In search of the American Dream? Apple has sold approximately 122 million Macs over the course of 28 years. They have sold 55 million iPads since those were released in April 2010 (in less than 2 years) and sold 156 million iOS Devices for 2011 alone, bringing the total of iOS devices to 316 million. The handset market is set to increase by around 33 percent and there’s really no telling where the tablet market is set to go over the course of the next few years. What does all of this mean? It means that iOS is continuing to increase in visibility, that App Store sales will continue to rise…

  • personal,  sites,  Social Networking

    Top 25 Best Hacking and Computer Geek Movies

    Hacking, phreaking, computing and gaming. There are a lot of movies that really hit on some of these topics. Everyone is going to have their favorites, but I wanted to share mine in case you had Presidents Day off and needed some nerdy fun to get you through the forced vacation! 1. Office Space is the story of Peter Gibbons, a computer programmer who spends all day doing mindless tasks. Thanks to a hypnotic suggestion, Peter decides not to go to work at the same time his company starts laying people off. When layoffs affect his two best friends, they conspire to plant a virus that will embezzle money from…

  • cloud,  iPhone,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment,  sites,  Social Networking

    Link Baiting 101

    I almost called this article “Aliens Can Listen To Calls on Your iPhone” or “How To Hack Into Every iPhone Ever (Even When They’re Powered Off)”. But then I thought that maybe it would be a bit too much. I’ve been a little melodramatic at times, but that’s when I was younger and needed the rupees. But TechTarget isn’t young (although I don’t know if they need the rupees). I’d like to point out two recent articles of theirs: Zaphod wrote this chapter just to mess with you: Apple iOS Security Attacks A Matter Of When, Not If, IT Pros Say The Salmon of Doubt would be a much better title…