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I seek to assess a macbook pro 2017 to confirm if its been compromised by bad actors seeking to steal valuable data or not. A valid security concern exists in relation to the device. Is anyone able to walk me through this process?
I’ve recently sent my MacBook (running on Catalina) to repair by a licensed Apple service provider. The whole thing was simple (replacing one key cap) and took about 5 minutes or so. But I forgot to shut down the MacBook and only put it on… Continue reading Data security while MacBook is on lock screen
I’ve been pondering/hacking/experimenting/using/misusing and am torn/puzzled over this for the past month or so;
Which of these methods should prove themselves more secure/least susceptible to be exploited, when generating ss… Continue reading SSH AUTH : sekey vs yubikey vs ssh-keygen
After practicing arpspoofing on myself my internet connection in unbearably slow on most, but not all of my devices. I have shut everything down and booted back up in an effort to re-arp everything but still run into the same… Continue reading Slow internet connection after arpspoofing
Basically what the title says. I recently had a look at my /var/log/install.log and the earliest entries are from about 2 full months prior to me unboxing the computer.
The packaging had cellophane, no indication it was seco… Continue reading MacBookPro’s OSX install.log has entries that predate the initial unboxing
I have a Macbook configured with a firmware password required to boot from any media other than the built-in NVMe drive. In theory, this means without my password you can’t boot from removable media. Is this enough to prevent… Continue reading Is setting a firmware password on a Macbook enough to prevent cold boot attacks?
A quick question just be safe, is it still possible for a school to monitor what I’m looking up and what websites I’m accessing if I’m in private mode on google chrome canary while also using Ultrasurf, which is a free proxy … Continue reading If I’m using private mode for google chrome and a free web proxy, is it still possible for the school to monitor what I’m looking up on my macbook?
So I have a MacBook running High Sierra latest version and I decided to go to the Pirate Bay search engine for the first time just for seeing how it looks and just some research. So I searched for Adobe photoshop for Mac and… Continue reading Can visiting Pirate Bay itself give you malware?
(Take a Macbook Pro 2017 Sierra 10.12.5 for example.)
What I had done was I downloaded osxpmem-2.1.post4.zip (vouched by ponderthebits.com/.., itself by google.com/..), unzipped it with finder, created a folder Memory_Captures and:
sudo … Continue reading Best strategy to recover running Macbook "modern" Pro ram