Tag Archive for: ‘Rootpipe’

Apple Failed to Patch Rootpipe Mac OS X Yosemite Vulnerability

Though this time, the attack requires a hacker to have gained local privileges, which could most likely be obtained via a working exploit of other software sitting on Mac machines. Here’s the Video Demonstration: Wardle has demonstrated his hack attack …
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Rootpipe — Critical Mac OS X Yosemite Vulnerability Allows Root Access Without Password

Let’s just give Apple some time to roll out a patch to affected users,” Emil Kvarnhammar, IT specialist and hacker security company Truesec, tweeted from his twitter account. By exploiting the vulnerability in the Mac OS X Yosemite, an attacker could …
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Apple Mac OS Has Critical ‘Rootpipe’ Vulnerability, Warns Researcher

The flaw is said to affect Apple’s OS X Yosemite, but could also impact previous Mac operating systems as well. The flaw has been labelled “Rootpipe” according to The Hacker News, and was discovered by Swedish Security researcher Emil Kvarnhammar …
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