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Dig Into Unix

Written on June 10, 2009 by Jon Buys and 12 people have commented

When Apple revamped its operating system and adopted Nextstep as the base of OS X, they brought along with it an extremely powerful version of Unix based on the open-source project FreeBSD, now known as Darwin.
Unix has a long history, one that started in the basements of Bell Labs by a group of AT&T engineers [...]

Why Mac Security Matters: OS X Rootkit Hunter

Written on January 23, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 40 people have commented

After blogging about the need to use and maintain an anti-virus solution for your OS X systems, an anonymous reply questioning the need to use security tools at all on OS X systems gave me pause. You do not need me to link to the numerous articles flying around the internets that report on how [...]