Installing Open Firmware password will at least prevent the previous gaping hole: Start up with the 's' key pressed and go straight into single (root) user mode. It also prevents the CD-boot ...

Earlier this afternoon on Twitter, a developer posted a screenshot and reported it was possible to obtain root access on Apple’s High Sierra without a password. [Note: Apple has released a fix for ...

A newly-discovered flaw in macOS High Sierra — Apple’s latest iteration of its operating system — allows anyone with local (and, apparently in some cases, remote) access to the machine to log in as ...

Nowadays, most smartphone makers put a high effort into making their devices more secure. There are multiple authentication methods allowing the user to lock all its precious data behind a password ...