Updating macOS can bring back the nasty “root” security bug

Ars Technica
By Samuel AxonDec 1, 2017, 11:13 pm999 ptsHot
Enlarge (credit: Andrew Cunningham) The serious and surprising root security bug in macOS High Sierra is back for some users, shortly after Apple declared it fixed. Users who had not installed macOS 10.13.1 and thus were running a prior version of the OS when they received the security update, found that…

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