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Aussie Researcher Cracks OS X Lion Passwords

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-your-passwords-are-belong-to-me dept.

daria42 writes "Thought your Mac was secure running Apple's latest operating system? Think again. Turns out that in some respects Lion is actually less secure than previous version of Mac OS X, due to some permission-tweaking by Apple that has opened up a way for an attacker to crack your password on your Lion box. The flaw was discovered by an Australian researcher who has previously published a guide to cracking Mac OS X passwords. Sounds like Apple had better get a patch out for this."

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  1. Re:Not really cracking the passwords. by MightyYar · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Yeah, once you get to the point of waving your hands and saying, "And then all that has to be done it to trick the user into running some arbitrary code," the exploit goes from "serious" to "surprised if it didn't work".

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