Apple has posted the Apple FIPS Cryptographic Module v1.1 and has an associated "How to set up and maintain a FIPS-enabled OS X Lion system" kbase. FIPS validation is a certification program by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) to verify cryptographic modules.
Well, that was fast. WWDC 2012 tickets sold out in record time! Hopefully you got yours, but if not, there is always the videos. Now we just need to wait to hear the screams from the folks on the West Coast and as they wake up and realize what happened.
WWDC 2012 has been announced for June 11-15, and tickets are now available!. Run, don't walk, to https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ and grab yours now. Every year it sells out faster, and this year should be no exception.
If you have an Open Directory infrastructure, and you want to secure your connections between the client and Open Directory services using SSL, the simplest solution is to purchase SSL certificates and install the certificate on your Open Directory Master and each Replicas.
If you are in an environment where you are integrating Mac OS X with a 3rd party KDCs, you already know about builtin:krb5authnoverify addition to your /etc/authorization. But did you know that you can use the builtin:krb5authenticate option to provide better security by assuring that your KDC is not being spoofed?
Leopard Server has all of the pieces installed for sieve filters for server-side mail filtering, but if you want to use the SquirrelMail filter interface to allow users to add filters, then you have to do a little work.
So you got your Macs all pimped out with a bootcamp partition and dual boot.
This is a tale about getting rid of postfix-watch.
