Mac OS Ken: 12.04.2017

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

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🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

- A Recap of the High Sierra Root Vulnerability - Apple Issues Root Vulnerability Fix (and a Fix for the Fix) - Engadget: How About Another Fix? - Apple Releases iOS 11.2 - Guggenheim Analyst Stoked for Apple Services - Morgan Stanley: iPhone Stronger in China Than Many Think - Piper Jaffray: Not SuperCycle™, But Super Long Cycle - iPhone X Ship Times Drop to One-Week in US - Tim Cook Opens China's World Internet Conference - Get 10% Off of Your Squarespace Order with Coupon Code macosken at Squarespace.com - Power Mac OS Ken through Patreon at Patreon.com/macosken! - Send me an email: info@macosken.com or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKenn.
0:07.0	Apple's security cluster thing. We'll catch up with some financial friends and
0:17.2	Tim Cook tells China to be a little less China. It's Monday the 4th of December 2017. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Maco Esken.
0:28.8	Brought to you by yours truly and sponsored by Squarearespace your place online.
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0:37.9	enter offer code MacoWest can to get 10% off your first purchase. This show is also supported by people like you, patrons through
0:46.5	Patreon. Find out more than at your support at patreon.com slash MacOS can. Boy did something stupid happen while I was gone. There's a
0:59.3	good chance you know about this but I'm just catching up and besides who doesn't like shows like I remember yesterday and I remember five minutes ago
1:08.2	According to 9 to 5 Mac of vulnerability turned up in Mac OS High Sierra.
1:13.4	As a result, the site says,
1:14.8	someone with physical access
1:16.3	to a Mac OS machine can access and change
1:19.0	personal files on the system
1:21.1	without needing any admin credentials. The piece says people who'd not disabled guest accounts and who had not
1:28.0	changed their route password so almost all of the people in the site's
1:32.3	estimation were vulnerable.
1:35.0	That news broke on the 28th of November, prompting an acknowledgement and a workaround from Apple.
1:41.0	The next day, though, came an actual fix fix the 29th of November.
1:45.0	Apple released security update 2017-001.
1:49.0	It also came with a statement from Apple,
1:52.0	a separate piece from 9 to 5 Mac quotes that security
1:55.5	is a top priority for every Apple product and regrettably we stumbled with this release of
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