Time to instal those updates ! Last workweek , we warned you that a bug in High Sierra made it potential for an attacker to extract parole from Apple ’s Keychain in plaintext . The bug was discover and cover by Synack head researcher Patrick Wardle in early September , and now Apple has go forth a patch for the yield .
https://gizmodo.com/high-sierra-reportedly-has-a-password-problem-1818734894
“ A method subsist for applications to bypass the keychain access prompt with a semisynthetic click . This was addressed by expect the exploiter password when prompting for keychain entree , ” Apple says in therelease notesfor the update .
gamy Sierra 10.13 also comes with another important security update that you ’ll want to snaffle as shortly as potential . Security researcher Matheus Mariano discovered that , if he used a countersign hint to remind him of his encoding word for an Apple File Systems mass , the password itself would be displayed or else of the tinge .
essay myself & it ’s true:#HighSierrashows the#APFSvolume password as hint . run reboots , not hive away in keychain . Wow . Just wow.pic.twitter.com/FkcHI9KHl9
— Felix Schwarz ( @felix_schwarz)October 5 , 2017
Installing the update will situate this , but Apple has a wholelist of stepsyou should be as well , include changing password for write in code APFS volumes .
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