What began as an attempt to improve security by reviewing VPN connection logs yielded quite unexpected results last year for a U.S.-based firm. Verizon’s Business Security Blog tells the story of an unnamed “critical infrastructure company” surprised to find a live VPN connection into its network originating from Shenyang, China. Like many businesses, this company […]
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Mac App Store Announces Lockdown
Apple announces a major change to their Mac App Store taking place as of March 1, 2012. As of that date, all applications will be required to run in an “App Sandbox“. Similar to existing requirements in iOS today, this amounts to a partitioned area where applications can only access system resources explicitly allowed by […]