{"id":1088,"date":"2017-11-29T11:51:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T03:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2017-11-30T13:45:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T05:45:59","slug":"huge-security-flaw-lets-anyone-log-into-a-high-sierra-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/huge-security-flaw-lets-anyone-log-into-a-high-sierra-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge security flaw lets anyone log into a High Sierra\u00a0Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is as bad as it gets. While Apple&#8217;s hardware is still top-notch, the quality of their software &#8211; especially on macOS &#8211; seems to be going down. Too much emphasis on iOS?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/11\/28\/astonishing-os-x-bug-lets-anyone-log-into-a-high-sierra-machine\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ooooooh-dear.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wow, this is a bad one. On Macs running the latest version of High Sierra (10.13.1 (17B48)), it appears that anyone can log in just by putting &#8220;root&#8221; in the..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/11\/28\/astonishing-os-x-bug-lets-anyone-log-into-a-high-sierra-machine\/\">Huge security flaw lets anyone log into a High Sierra\u00a0Mac<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Updates:<br \/>\n2017-11-30: <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT208315\">Apple releases a fix<\/a><br \/>\n2017-11-30: The fix apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/security-update-2017-001-breaks-file-sharing.2091913\/\">broke file sharing<\/a> on macOS. Software is hard. Period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is as bad as it gets. While Apple&#8217;s hardware is still top-notch, the quality of their software &#8211; especially on macOS &#8211; seems to be going down. Too much emphasis on iOS? Wow, this is a bad one. On Macs running the latest version of High Sierra (10.13.1 (17B48)), it appears that anyone can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}