Security News This Week: A New Bill Wants Jail Time for Execs Who Hide Data Breaches
Security News This Week: A New Bill Wants Jail Time for Execs Who Hide Data Breaches
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
December 5, 20177m 23s
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Show Notes
It's been a rough week for a lot of people, but particularly for Apple. On Tuesday, a security researcher tweeted information about a dire bug in the company's macOS High Sierra operating system that allowed anyone being prompted for system user credentials to bypass the authentication by simply typing "root" as the username and leaving the password blank. Apple rushed to push out a necessary update on Wednesday, but botched it a bit; if you hadn't yet updated to macOS 10.13.
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