{"id":380044,"date":"2017-12-04T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=380044"},"modified":"2017-12-04T16:57:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:57:07","slug":"apple-mac-security-issue-may-reoccur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=380044","title":{"rendered":"Apple Mac security issue may reoccur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A software fix Apple released to close a serious Mac security bug may not have fixed the problem on some machines.<\/p>\n<p>The bug meant anyone with physical access to a Mac running High Sierra could get admin access to the machine.<\/p>\n<p>Wired magazine has found that the bug returns\u00a0if Mac owners upgrade to the latest version of High Sierra after applying the patch.<\/p>\n<p>Apple issued an apology for the appearance of the bug saying its users &#8220;deserved better&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__crosshead\"><strong>Proper patch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bug let anyone obtain high-level access to a Mac simply by typing the username &#8220;root&#8221; and leaving the password field blank.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was present on Mac computers running version 10.13. and 10.13.1 of the latest version of Apple&#8217;s operating system known as High Sierra.<\/p>\n<p>Apple produced a patch to close the loophole less than a day after it was first reported.<\/p>\n<p>Now it has emerged that the order in which people installed updates and patches for their Mac can mean the problem is not fixed.<\/p>\n<p>The bug would still be present on a Mac that:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">was running High Sierra 10.13<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">applied the security patch<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">upgraded to High Sierra 10.13.1<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">had not been rebooted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;You could easily have someone who doesn&#8217;t reboot their computer for months,&#8221; Thomas Reed, a security researcher at Malwarebytes, told Wired. &#8220;That&#8217;s not a good thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Writing in Wired, Andy Greenberg said it was &#8220;not clear&#8221; how many users might be exposed by this particular set of circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has yet to respond to a request for comment about the circumstances under which the root bug would reappear.<\/p>\n<p>However, Apple&#8217;s support page about the loophole stresses the importance of making sure that the security patch is &#8220;applied properly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A software fix Apple released to close a serious Mac security bug may not have fixed the problem on some machines. The bug meant anyone with physical access to a Mac running High Sierra could get admin access to the machine. Wired magazine has found that the bug returns\u00a0if Mac owners upgrade to the latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[224,11486],"class_list":["post-380044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}