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Rootpipe Security Flaw is attacking Mac OS X users. Are you safe?

Hackers leave no stone unturned to creep into your digital world and create havoc. While Mac was earlier believed to be risk-free; it appears that times are fast changing and this isn’t the case anymore. With the discovery of Rootpipe security flaw in various Mac OS X versions, users are becoming wary of their sensitive data, stored in their Mac machines, particularly the Yosemite computers.

Are you one who’s using this operating system version and yet unaware of the security measures that you should immediately take? Read through this iYogi Security Alert and learn everything about this vulnerability right away…

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Rootpipe vulnerability still affects Macs despite patch

Rootpipe vulnerability still affects Macs despite patch

Despite having issued an updatethat patches the recent security flaw in OS X called “rootpipe,” security researchers are demonstrating that OS X is still open to this ongoing vulnerability. Rootpipe is a backdoor flaw in OS X where a hacker can break the OS X sandboxing rules that isolate running processes. In doing so, a program that does not have admin access can gain these privileges and get…

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Apple Failed to Patch Rootpipe Mac OS X Yosemite Vulnerability

Apple Failed to Patch Rootpipe Mac OS X Yosemite Vulnerability

Sad but True! Your Apple’s Mac computer is vulnerable to a serious privilege escalation flaw, dubbed “RootPipe,” even if you are running the latest version of Mac OS X.

What’s RootPipe?

Back in October 2014, a Swedish White Hat hacker Emil Kvarnhammar claimed to have discovered a critical privilege escalation vulnerability, he dubbed the backdoor as “RootPipe,” in some versions of Mac OS X…

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Latest OS X security updates fix 'Rootpipe' vulnerability

Latest OS X security updates fix ‘Rootpipe’ vulnerability

One recent security flaw in Apple’s Mac OS platform that gained some press recently was the Rootpipe vulnerability, where security researcher Emil Kvarnhammer found a method of hacking a Macthat could bypass OS X’s security and allow the hacker to gain full administrative control of the system. This issue, which took advantage of faulty entitlements for XPC processes (small tools launched on the…

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Rootpipe, la nueva y grave vulnerabilidad encontrada en OS X y Yosemite

Rootpipe, la nueva y grave vulnerabilidad encontrada en OS X y Yosemite

Bueno mientras que Google presenta una herramienta de seguridad, por otro lado un hacker acaba de encontrar una grave vulnerabilidad en el sistema operativo OS X que da privilegios de administración sin que se tengan contraseñas.

Esta vulnerabilidad lleva por nombre “Rootpipe”, lo que hace es que permite la ejecución de un programar con permisos de administrador obteniendo acceso a root mediante…

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