Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 29-11-2017

Tech giant Apple has released a security update for macOS High Sierra after a serious security flaw allowed anyone to gain full access to affected Macs without knowing the computer’s administrative password.

The bug appeared to let someone log into the admin account on a Mac by simply typing “root” as the username while leaving the password field blank. Attackers could potentially exploit the bug to access locked Macs and gain access to personal information.

Turkish software developer Lemi Orhan Ergin was the first to spot the flaw and posted about it on Twitter.

He tweeted the tech giant to say he had come across the issue and that anyone could log in to a computer running MacOS High Sierra without a password via system preferences.

In order to install the update, open the Mac App Store and click on the “Updates” tab. Interestingly, the release notes say “install this update as soon as possible.”

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