Security Growler
2.3
Security Growler
2.3Menu bar notifier for SSH, FTP, VNC, AFP, or sudo events.
Overview
Security Growler is a menu bar app that will notify you via Notification Center or Growl if any SSH, FTP, VNC, AFP, or Sudo authentication events occur. It's very useful if you're paranoid about people trying to hack into your computer or if you simply like having information about people using your computer's resources. It's easily extensible in python, you can add modules that watch logfiles or processes and do whatever you want. Use Prowl to send the notifications to your iPhone/iPad when you're away.
What's new in Security Growler
Version 2.3:
- Fixes the Stop background agent & quit menu-bar item in Security Growler Light.app
- Notifies the user when the background agent is killed
- Adds menu item to check for updates
- Minor code cleanup and refactoring
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Free
App requirements:
- Intel 64
- OS X 10.9.0 or later
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Also this goes hand in hand with LittleSnitch and providing easy access to the customise the applet - wow. Really nice work.
There is a Light Mode version available, but the icon is still colored. Feel free to change the icon in the source code if you feel up to it :)
But you'll have to change it again after every update.
SC is meant to serve a slightly different purpose though, as it's more centered around parsing logfiles for any kind of urgent security events, as opposed to just TCP sockets readable from `lsof -i`.
All that said though, I love LittleSnitch and highly recommend it if what you want is the best possible connection alerting app, but I recommend SC if you want a lighter-weight less-intrusive system for only the most essential security alerts.