Security News > 2018 > August > macOS Zero-Day Flaw Lets Hackers Bypass Security Using Invisible Mouse-Clicks
2018-08-13 16:33
Your Mac computer running the Apple's latest High Sierra operating system can be hacked by tweaking just two lines of code, a researcher demonstrated at the Def Con security conference on Sunday. Patrick Wardle, an ex-NSA hacker and now Chief Research Officer of Digita Security, uncovered a critical zero-day vulnerability in the macOS operating system that could allow a malicious application
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