Items tagged with high sierra

by Shane McGlaun - Sat, Mar 31, 2018

Apple macOS 10.3.4 High Sierra Finally Adds External Graphics Support

Apple has announced that the macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 update is now available for customers to download. It brings a slew of features that fans will appreciate, with one of the new features being something that gamers will flip for. That new feature is support for external graphics processors or eGPUs. If you have a... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Thu, Nov 30, 2017

Apple Shoots Itself In The Foot As Fix For Glaring macOS High Sierra Exploit Breaks File Sharing

Apple seems to be having a tough time getting out of its own way, in regards to a dopey security flaw that was recently discovered and fixed. The flaw allowed users to gain administrative access to systems running macOS High Sierra by typing "root" for the username and leaving the password blank. Apple rolled out a... Read more...

by Shane McGlaun - Wed, Nov 29, 2017

UPDATE: Apple Releases Patch For Embarrassing MacOS High Sierra Admin Access Exploit

Updated November 29th at 11:52am Apple has issued a patch for the macOS High Sierra security exploit, less than 24 hours after it was made public. It is addressed in Security Update 2017-001, which Apple encourages all macOS High Sierra users to download immediately. Apple describes the security incident... Read more...

by Shane McGlaun - Wed, Sep 27, 2017

Apple Acknowledges Password Security Flaw In This Week's macOS High Sierra Release

It used to be that Macs were thought to be nearly immune to malware, viruses, and serious security issues. That certainly isn't the case with modern Macs because as the user base has grown, the amount of malware and viruses targeting the platform has also grown. Back in June, we talked about malware-as-a-service... Read more...