OS X security flaw leads to malware intrusion on Macs

Reports suggest that the latest version of Apple’s OS X Yosemite has a serious flaw that could lead to malware intrusion on Macs easier.

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The iOS jailbreaker Stefan Esser figured out this flaw in which centers on a hidden documents called Sudoers that saves a list of system permissions.

Details reported by MalwareBytes that Esser claimed the documents are changed when Yosemite store them and Yosemite has left them wide open for hackers to embed malware under the radar.

Stefan Esser has been accused of publicly revealing the vulnerability rather than he informed Apple company about this flaw’s existence. His action was against by some members in the security community.

Esser publicized this flaw in the hope of protecting the users from attacking by this bug. And it indicated that it is risking the pc security if installing unofficial patches.

So far, the apple company doesn’t make any comment on this issue and there is no sign when they will release a modified version for this system.

It is no wonder that it has risk to challenge the new high-teach prodcuts. You could wait for a while till the modified version has been rolled out. Please draw your attention to the news about this issue.

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