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Wikileaks publishes two more Mac-specific exploits from CIA Vault 7 files

If you’re interested in security, you’ll like this. Wikileaks has just Wikileaks published two more Mac exploits from the so-called CIA Vault 7 under the name Project Imperial. The new exploits—Achilles and SeaPea—affect older versions of OS X, such as Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. The exploits behave […]

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Researcher draws attention to long-standing security vulnerability in OS X operating systems

After five months, it might be time to fix this sucker… Per mitre.org and Ars Technica, a unaddressed bug in Apple’s Mac OS X discovered five months ago allows hackers to bypass the usual authentication measures by tweaking specific clock and user timestamp settings, granting near unlimited access to a computer’s files. While the security […]