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Safari User Guide

When you visit an encrypted webpage—for instance, to do online banking—Safari checks if the website’s certificate is legitimate. If it’s not, Safari displays a warning message.

Encrypted websites mask the data you exchange with them, so that only you and they can see it. It’s important to use encrypted websites to prevent anyone from “eavesdropping” on you.

Determine whether a website is encrypted

• In the Safari app on your Mac, look for an encryption icon in the Smart Search field. An encryption icon indicates that the website uses the HTTPS protocol, has a digital identity certificate, and encrypts information. To view the website’s certificate, click the icon.

  A gray lock icon indicates a standard certificate.

Important: If a website doesn’t have an encryption icon, the words “Not Secure” appear in the Smart Search field. Don’t enter personal or financial information on a webpage that isn’t encrypted. The website you’re visiting might not be the website you want, and information you enter is vulnerable to theft. Instead, go back to the page where you logged in and check for a link to another version of the site that’s encrypted—for example, “Use our secure site.” If available, use it, even if you don’t expect to view or provide private information.

Respond to a certificate warning

In the Safari app on your Mac, do any of the following:

• Click Show Certificate, then review the certificate content.

  If a certificate includes a message that the certificate isn’t trusted, or was signed by an untrusted issuer, or the name and organization aren’t the same as the website owner, click Cancel.

  If you continue to the website, verify the address in the Safari toolbar to confirm it’s correct. Some fraudulent websites masquerade as trusted websites by changing one or two letters of the website address. The certificate is stored on your computer. You can change the certificate’s trust settings later using Keychain Access.

• Contact the website owner or administrator and ask why their site causes a certificate warning. For example, they may say the site is only accessible within your organization, so it has a self-signed certificate (one not provided by a certificate authority). You have to decide whether to trust the site anyway or not visit it.

Respond to a fraudulent website warning

• In the Safari app on your Mac, if a warning appears about a deceptive, malicious, or potentially harmful website, don’t visit the site.

Safari can also warn you about dangerous websites that have been reported as deceptive, malicious, or harmful. When you encounter a warning, it’s recommended that you do not visit the website.

Deceptive websites may attempt to trick you into installing dangerous software that can harm your computer, redirect your browsing, or steal your personal information (such as your user names and passwords). Many websites pretend to be legitimate businesses or government agencies, such as your bank, email service provider, or the IRS.

There are a couple reasons why you would want to access the internet through a VPN: your work requires it, you regularly work from open Wifi networks, at hotels, coffee shops or libraries, and you want to prevent eavesdropping.

This article presents a simple technique that allows you to force internet access through a VPN when using unsafe networks. I will usePrivate Internet Access as an example, but this applies to any VPN connection, on any network.

TL;DR

• Modify rules in default profile to deny all connections.
• Create a 'VPN' profile that allows all connections.
• Let 'Automatic Profile Switching' do the rest.

Little Snitch

Little Snitch is a firewall that allows you to control connectionsfrom your computerto the internet. One of its greatest features, introduced in version 3, is 'Automatic Profile Switching': the ability to automatically apply different rules depending on which network you're connected to.

We are going to use this feature to provide unrestricted access to the internet when connected to a VPN, and automatically cut off access as soon as we are disconnected (or before we are connected).

Step 1: Install Little Snitch

Go ahead andinstall Little Snitch.

Step 2: Stop the filter and switch to silent mode

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Little Snitch has a tendency to be a bit verbose, and will pester you with questions as soon as any application attempts a connection, which can rapidly get annoying.

Fortunately, there is a 'Silent Mode', which will automatically allow/deny any connection, and offer us some peace while we work on the configuration. So:

• Stop the network filter
• Set 'Silent Mode' to 'Deny'

Step 3: Delete all default rules

Little Snitch comes with a couple of default rules. They are mostly harmful, but if you are worried about your privacy, it can't hurt to be cautious. So let's start from an empty environment.

Open the 'Rules' screen:

Delete or disable all the rules. You may get a few warnings, but just go ahead and do it anyway (you can always restore the factory defaults later).

I only keep 3 main rules:

• DNS
• Outgoing connections to local network
• Incoming connections (though it's safe to disable those as well)

When you are done, your rules should look like this:

Let's simplify the view a bit by hiding disabled rules:

Step 4: Create a new profile

First, we need to enable 'Automatic Profile Switching':

Now, let's create ourVPN profile:

Finally, we restart the network filter:

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Turn Wifi on and off:

And now Little Snitch wants you to choose a profile. If this your home connection, you could choose the newly created VPN profile. If you are at an unsafe location, or if you simply prefer to have VPN activated at all times, select 'Deactivate Active Profile':

Since the default rules do not explicitly allow any connection, and we have set 'Silent Mode' to 'Deny', we basically lost internet access:

That's what we wanted :) Let's now configure the VPN.

Step 5: Creating new rules

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We succeeded in stopping access for all applications, but the truth is: the VPN itself needs access. So we need to create a few rules for that.

Try to start the connection:

At this time, the VPN won't be able to connect, but since we activated Silent Mode, the connection attempts will appear in Little Snitch and we can create new rules:

As soon as the rules are created, the VPN connection will succeed and you will be prompted with the familiar dialog. Choose 'VPN & Safe Networks':

Finally, now that the association has been made between the VPN network and the VPN profile, we need to restore access to all applications. Go back to the rules window, and click 'New'. You will need to create 2 rules. One for all applications owned by you, and one for all system applications:

If all goes well, you now have full internet access:

Caveats

• I left access open for DNS. Depending on your VPN configuration and your needs, you may want to restrict that as well, and just allow access to the IP of your VPN server. It's up to you.

• The rules required to make your VPN work will of course depend on your VPN. It is usually pretty simple to figure out once you look at the connection attempts, but you may have to play with it a bit until you find the right set. You can double click any rule to adjust its parameters (expand it, restrict it).

• Some hotels/hotspots require that you accept their terms and conditions before getting access, in which case your VPN won't be able to connect. Because of this, I have a special rule to always allow access for Safari. I don't use it as a browser normally, but if the VPN fails and I'm on a free network, I just open it and try apple.com. If there is an authentication phase, I'll get redirected. Once I've accepted the terms and conditions, I'll get the full access and the VPN will be able to connect normally.

Conclusion

That's it! You're pretty much set :) Now, every time you connect to a new network, Little Snitch will ask you to choose a profile and you can either choose the safe one (for work and home), or deactivate the current profile and launch your VPN (for coffee shops, etc).

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I hope this was helpful. Until next time, Cheers!

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