Your Lion is wide open

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in macOS edited January 2014
Thought your Mac was secure running Apple's latest operating system, Lion? Think again. Turns out that in some respects Lion is actually less secure than previous version of Mac OS X, due to some permission-tweaking by Apple that has opened up a way for an attacker to crack your password on your Lion box: http://delimiter.com.au/2011/09/26/a...ion-passwords/. The flaw was discovered by an Australian researcher who has previously published a guide to cracking Mac OS X passwords. Apple had better get a patch out for this...
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