Swedish hacker finds 'serious' vulnerability in OS X Yosemite<article>
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A white-hat hacker from Sweden says he’s found a serious security hole in Apple’s Yosemite OS X that could allow an attacker to take control of your computer.</p><p>
Emil Kvarnhammar, a hacker at Swedish security firm Truesec, calls the vulnerability “rootpipe” and has explained how he found it and how you can protect against it.</p><p>
It’s a so-called privilege escalation vulnerability, which means that even without a password an attacker could gain the highest level of access on a machine, known as root access. From there, the attacker has full control of the system.</p><p>
It affects the newest OS X release, version 10.10, known as Yosemite. Apple hasn’t fixed the flaw yet, he says, so Truesec won’t provide details yet of how it works.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2841965/swedish-hacker-finds-serious-vulnerability-in-os-x-yosemite.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Swedish hacker finds 'serious' vulnerability in OS X Yosemite
