Tag Archive for: Yosemite

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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OS X Yosemite Flaw Leaves Macs Open to Hacker Takeover

Truesec did release a short YouTube video on Oct. 14 showing Rootpipe gain root access without an administrator password on a Mac running Yosemite. OSX 10.10 hack – privilege escalation through rootpipe The flaw also affects OS X 10.9 Mavericks and 10.8 …
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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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Swedish hacker finds ‘serious’ vulnerability in OS X Yosemite

Mac users tend to keep their OS more up to date than Windows … FileVault won’t slow your system down—set it up in System Preferences > Security & Privacy. That means if a hacker takes over the account that’s used daily, it won’t have the admin …
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