A newly-discovered flaw in macOS High Sierra — Apple’s latest iteration of its operating system — allows anyone with local (and, apparently in some cases, remote) access to the machine to log in as ...
Update #2: An official fix is now available; no restart required. Update: An Apple spokesperson has issued the following statement, saying an update is in the works: “We are working on a software ...
The Just Another iPhone Blog provides the steps needed, from first jailbreaking to final lock-down, to get a new, custom root password installed. By default, your iPhone's root password is alpine—and ...
There appears to be a critical flaw within macOS High Sierra that allows anyone with physical access to a Mac running the operating system to gain full administrator access, no password required. The ...
Earlier this afternoon on Twitter, a developer posted a screenshot and reported it was possible to obtain root access on Apple’s High Sierra without a password. [Note: Apple has released a fix for ...
What is the best way to reset a root password on a FreeBSD box, given physical access? Most searches I found said to boot to single user mode (boot -s) and do it from there. Unfortunately, the system ...