MacOS High Sierra Users: Change Root Password Now — Krebs on Security | #Apple #CyberSecurity #Awareness #Mac #Passwords #NobodyIsPerfect #Naivety | Apple, Mac, MacOS, iOS4, iPad, iPhone and (in)security... | Scoop.it
A newly-discovered flaw in macOS High Sierra — Apple’s latest iteration of its operating system — allows anyone with local (and, apparently in some cases, remote) access to the machine to log in as the all-powerful “root” user without supplying a password. Fortunately, there is a simple fix for this until Apple patches this inexplicable bug: Change the root account’s password now.

 

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