The illusion of Macs being ultra secure continues to erode with the discovery of a serious vulnerability to Mac OS X.
SentinelOne’s Pedro Vilaça has discovered a security flaw that combined with access gained via another method, like a phishing attack or browser vulnerability, lets you run any code you like on a Mac without the user knowing about it. What is really scary about this is that it can even bypass System Integrity Protection which when it was introduced with El Capitan was supposed to stop this sort of thing from being possible.
There is some good news in this. If you are running OS X 10.11.4 and iOS 9.3, you are safe. But if you’re running anything else, you are not safe. Thus you should upgrade to those versions ASAP. But it continues to highlight that OS X in not anywhere as secure as Apple would lead you to believe.
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Serious Vulnerability Threatens Macs
The illusion of Macs being ultra secure continues to erode with the discovery of a serious vulnerability to Mac OS X.
SentinelOne’s Pedro Vilaça has discovered a security flaw that combined with access gained via another method, like a phishing attack or browser vulnerability, lets you run any code you like on a Mac without the user knowing about it. What is really scary about this is that it can even bypass System Integrity Protection which when it was introduced with El Capitan was supposed to stop this sort of thing from being possible.
There is some good news in this. If you are running OS X 10.11.4 and iOS 9.3, you are safe. But if you’re running anything else, you are not safe. Thus you should upgrade to those versions ASAP. But it continues to highlight that OS X in not anywhere as secure as Apple would lead you to believe.
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