Operating System Security

Dentro de los principales sistemas operativos MacOS es de los más importantes, el día de ayer se descubrió una vulnerabilidad que permitía que un usuario invitado tuviera privilegios de administrador con un simple cambio en el nombre del usuario y varios enters,
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Lo más interesante de esto es que 19 horas más tarde Apple ya tenia disponible en su centro de descargas una actualización al sistema operativo que solucionaba el problema.

No existe sistema perfecto pero la velocidad de reacción y el compromiso de los creadores a mantenerlo seguro, confiable y funcional es lo que hace que sus usuarios permanezcan ahí.

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