{"id":240296,"date":"2017-11-30T08:26:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T06:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=240296"},"modified":"2017-11-30T08:29:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T06:29:57","slug":"apple-releases-patch-for-macos-high-sierra-security-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/240296-apple-releases-patch-for-macos-high-sierra-security-flaw.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple releases patch for macOS High Sierra security flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has released an update to macOS High Sierra to patch a <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/240130-macos-high-sierra-has-login-flaw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>security vulnerability<\/strong><\/a> that allowed root privileges to a machine without a password.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability is detailed on a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT208315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support page<\/a><\/strong> on Apple&#8217;s website, with the company urging customers to install the patch as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Security is a top priority for every Apple product, and regrettably we stumbled with this release of macOS,&#8221; said Apple.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are auditing our development processes to help prevent this from happening again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/239386-apple-iphone-x-contract-prices-vodacom-mtn-and-telkom.html\">Apple iPhone X contract prices \u2014 Vodacom, MTN, and Telkom<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has released an update to macOS High Sierra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":230583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[605,36626,43686],"class_list":["post-240296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-apple","tag-macos","tag-macos-high-sierra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240320,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240296\/revisions\/240320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}