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By Graham Cluley & Carole Theriault

054: A great big fat macOS bug


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Published November 29, 2017 3:30am



Yes, you can log into macOS High Sierra's root account with no password.

In this special "emergency" edition of the podcast computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault discuss the breaking news of a serious Apple macOS bug that allows anyone to log into your Mac with root admin rights, without having to enter a password.

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