Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Lion security hole lets hackers change account passwords

OS X Lion has a serious security vulnerability allowing hackers to alter the password of any user account, writes security blog Defence in Depth. The OS reportedly allows non-root users the ability to view password hash data. As a consequence, an attacker can potentially use a basic Python script to glean a person's password....

Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=8855a7821ed1b840682c827f1c9cf7f7

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