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Title: Any Lion System Can Be Compromised With Trivial, Easy To Perform Password Hack
Post by: HCK on September 20, 2011, 03:00:04 pm
Any Lion System Can Be Compromised With Trivial, Easy To Perform Password Hack

A security research firm claims to have discovered a serious flaw in Apple’s latest Mac OS X operating system which allows attackers to change your system password without any knowledge of its existing password. One researcher says that a change to Lion’s authentication system has somehow allowed non-root users to view password hash data. Chester [...]

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