Jay Beale - Discovering Mac OSX Weaknesses (Video)

The Mac OS X operating system is beautiful, but it's not as secure as you think. It's mostly Unix under that shiny GUI and while we've come to expect a very locked down system from recent Unix/Linux releases, that expectation isn't entirely realistic when it comes to OS X. For instance, the firewall GUI tool makes it seem like you can create a default-deny firewall that only lets packets from established sessions in. The firewall it produces, though, is full of holes! Whatever you do, don't take your OS X laptop onto the wireless network here! Write your own replacement or take the one we'll offer in this talk, where we'll introduce the new OS X port of the popular Bastille Linux system lockdown and audit tool, Bastille OS X. Bastille increases the security of OS X systems. Learn about OS X security, learn how to harden and see the newest part of the Bastille family: Bastille OS X!