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Title: “I Am Root”: A Retrospective on a Severe Mac Vulnerability
Post by: HCK on December 05, 2017, 04:05:13 pm
“I Am Root”: A Retrospective on a Severe Mac Vulnerability

Image credit: Johnathon Burns modified by Gaël‏ On November 28, the world became aware of a major security vulnerability in macOS High Sierra that could allow an attacker to enable the "root" administrator account on a victim's Mac. The bug is being called "#IAmRoot" and "#rootgate" in various online discussions. We first wrote about the […]

Source: “I Am Root”: A Retrospective on a Severe Mac Vulnerability (https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/i-am-root-a-retrospective-on-a-severe-mac-vulnerability/)