Swedish hacker finds 'serious' vulnerability in OS X Yosemite

Macworld
Oct 31, 2014, 1:14 pm875 pts
A white-hat hacker from Sweden says he’s found a serious security hole in Apple’s Yosemite OS X that could allow an attacker to take control of your computer. Emil Kvarnhammar, a hacker at Swedish security firm Truesec, calls the vulnerability “rootpipe” and has explained how he found it and how you can…

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