Archive for the 'Security' Category

Securely Erasing Hard Drive in Mac OS X

Friday, February 27th, 2009

A lot of people are very sensitive about their data.  For a recent client, I put together some quick instructions for performing a “Secure Erase” on a hard drive using Disk Utility.

http://lowetechlabs.com/docs/securely-erase-hard-drive/

A secure erase is a low level format.  The Department of Defense suggests performing a low level format seven times to ensure the data is irretrievable.  On a Macintosh computer with Disk Utility, not only do you have the option to automatically perform a low level format seven times, but you also have the option to perform it thirty-five times.

The Pathetic Story of How To Hack a .Mac Account

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

iTunes, Security, Airport, Safari, iPhone updates from Apple

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Mac OS 10.4.11 seeded to developers!

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Anti-Theft from Apple

Thursday, July 26th, 2007