OS X High Sierra security issue

[Aakin]

​Dunno if people have seen this or not, but basically, after a few attempts, root on OS X defaults to no password.

https://twitter.com/lemiorhan/status/935578694541770752

- Aakin​

[mr jones]

Worth noting that the fix is trivial:

  https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Apple+High+Sierra+Uses+a+Passwordless+Root+Account/23077

Cheers,

-adj

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[Aakin Patel]

Apple also just announced that a patch should be released very soon.

- Aakin

[Andrew Morrow]

Security auditing performed by the guy who wrote the WRT... firmware.  This time, though, it's a username with no password, just to keep people guessing.  

Andrew

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