• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security

    Mac OS X: Spoofing MAC Addresses in 5 Seconds

    Every hardware network adapter has a unique MAC address.  However, they’re not always what they seem.  According to Wikipedia: MAC Spoofing is a hacking technique of changing an assigned Media Access Control (MAC) address of a networked device to a different one. The changing of the assigned MAC address may allow the bypassing of access control lists on servers or routers, either hiding a computer on a network or allowing it to impersonate another computer. I was talking to someone the other day about security and the topic of spoofing MAC addresses came up.  They seemed to discount that this was usually a concern except for in super secure environments because they considered it an extremely complex process.  Here’s my answer to…