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« on: August 05, 2015, 03:00:19 am »

OS X Zero-Day Exploit Threatens Massive Mac Attack

Mac users, beware -- the ads you see on the Web could let hackers hijack your device.
Malwarebytes has discovered a new zero-day exploit in OS X that lets apps bypass passwords during installation to get root permission through a Unix shell. A new adware installer downloaded by a Malwarebytes researcher modified his sudoers file -- a hidden Unix file that controls access to root permissions.

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