{"id":21778,"date":"2017-11-29T18:52:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T16:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/29\/apple-releases-macos-security-update-to-fix-serious-security-flaw\/"},"modified":"2017-11-29T18:52:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T16:52:01","slug":"apple-releases-macos-security-update-to-fix-serious-security-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/apple-releases-macos-security-update-to-fix-serious-security-flaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Releases MacOS Security Update to Fix Serious Security Flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 29-11-2017<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tech giant Apple has released a security update for macOS High Sierra after a serious security flaw allowed anyone to gain full access to affected Macs without knowing the computer\u2019s administrative password.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bug appeared to let someone log into the admin account on a Mac by simply typing \u201croot\u201d as the username while leaving the password field blank. Attackers could potentially exploit the bug to access locked Macs and gain access to personal information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turkish software developer Lemi Orhan Ergin was the first to spot the flaw and posted about it on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He tweeted the tech giant to say he had come across the issue and that anyone could log in to a computer running MacOS High Sierra without a password via system preferences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to install the update, open the Mac App Store and click on the \u201cUpdates\u201d tab. Interestingly, the release notes say \u201cinstall this update as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/AppleUpdate.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaizelPatel143\" rel=\"alternate\">Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 29-11-2017 Tech giant Apple has released a security update for macOS High Sierra after a serious security flaw allowed anyone to gain full access to affected Macs without knowing the computer\u2019s administrative password. The bug appeared to let someone log into the admin account on a Mac by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-5Fg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 13:44:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}