To: dayglored; ShadowAce; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; ...
A unique Zero Day Vulnerability was reported yesterday that can take over an OS X.11 El Capitan Mac at the ROOT level without having the Root user activated. Once a hacker uses this vulnerability to gain control, he can actually prevent the owner from getting control back using the Mac's own protections. This vulnerability is exploitable but it is not yet in the wild and Apple is aware of the issue and is going to release a fix for the issue. From what I can see in the explanation, the attack still requires downloading a Trojan, and/or physical possession of the target computer to use the Terminal for inputting the malware. Still it is a serious vulnerability but it can and will be fixed. — PING! Pinging dayglored and Shadow Ace for their attention to a Zero Day vulnerability that could be very dangerous in Apple OS X.11.
OS X.11 El Capitan Vulnerability
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2 posted on
03/27/2016 12:30:45 AM PDT by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
To: Swordmaker
welcome to the Windows world. Now that OSX is popular enough to get attack we realize it’s far weaker than window 10.
4 posted on
03/27/2016 1:15:31 AM PDT by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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