Apple Issued Half-Baked Update to Fix Gatekeeper Vulnerability, Says Researcher

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    Five months after a security researcher found a hole in OS X's Gatekeeper, he says he has managed to bypass it once again. The researcher added that Apple took a short-cut approach when issuing a patch last year.

    Patrick Wardle, the director of research at Synack, who found a simple workaround to bypass Gatekeeper in September last year, said this week that Apple's implementation is still not fully secure.

    Apple's Gatekeeper is a security mechanism intended to protect OS X users from malicious software. Gatekeeper ensures that the programs that run on OS X are signed and verified. The feature, introduced in OS X Mountain Lion, restricts the sources from which a user can download and install applications.

    http://gadgets.ndtv.com/laptops/new...tekeeper-vulnerability-says-researcher-790528
     
    Sefie, Jan 18, 2016
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    That's good they found it and it should teach them a lesson to be more careful before launching out anything.
     
    IcyBC, Jan 19, 2016
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    It's stuff like this that makes me scared to spend all that money on a Macbook. Why can't they get their shit together?
     
    PingPongCall, Jan 19, 2016
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