The same thing that happened to windows is happening to Apple, their software is becoming a house of cards.
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macOS High Sierra's App Store System Preferences Can Be Unlocked With Any Password [Updated]
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The same thing that happened to windows is happening to Apple, their software is becoming a house of cards.
I feel your response would be different if this were Windows or Android. But because it's Mac OS Apple gets a pass.
Two mitigating factors are important here. One, by default this preference is unlocked and two, it only works if you’re signed in as an administrator. If you’re signed in as an administrator you can unlock this preference anyway. It’s much less of a security bug than it sounds at first but in the current climate of Apple missteps it is definitely embarrassing and not at all encouraging.
As a security practitioner, my concern isn't how critical this specific issue is, it's more the issue that in the last couple months, there have been two authentication windows in MacOS that basically require nothing real entered to authenticate a user... This points to a larger issue under the hood in the way Apple engineers QA auth within the OS... Where else do major auth issues lie that we just don't even know? This is a major flaw in a pop up window, imagine what's vulnerable that the users don't see?
Is the same lack of QA wrapped around iCloud Security in the back end? IMO this points to much bigger issues @ Apple.. The last few months have been brutal for Apple on the software front - what does the future have in store?
Is the same lack of QA wrapped around iCloud Security in the back end? IMO this points to much bigger issues @ Apple.. The last few months have been brutal for Apple on the software front - what does the future have in store?
Yes, now I’m convinced there’s a serious issue at hand. How is this happening? That padlock button and the password prompt should be managed system-wide, not on a per-instance basis. The fact that they can be broken in just one instance is very worrying.
Every OS has flawless faults, really all OS out there. Where's the issue here? Yes there was a bug, a problem or whatever you call it and look - they fixed it earlier than this thread startet. So - what are we talking about? Do you also insult Kaspersky because they does not protect you at 100% even if you paid for it?
I agree, but the previously good reputation of Apple is getting really bashed at present - they look untrustworthy (2 governments investigating phone software slowdown problem) and a number of security bloopers. Apple rely not on a seasoned analysis of the pro's and con's of their products but on a popular movement making them the thing to have – that could become 'so last year' very quickly.
Good old days, when everything worked like clockwork.
I don't see Craig Federighi on the top row, but I see Scott Forstall on the top row with Steve Jobs. For some reason he was in that position.
After 10 years, it's time to search on Distrowatch.com for a fast, secure and reliable Linux distro.
It is the Snow Leopard style release.
This is what Apple is capable of after 7 years of Timmy rotting away their soul.
This works for me *without* the second click, and *without* typing any password at all. Just leaving the password field blank still works.
This is nutty. To the Apple devs responsible for this — shame on you!
This is nutty. To the Apple devs responsible for this — shame on you!
Well played Apple. You have become Windows.
Windows in terms of quality and usability.
But at least Windows had the monopoly and market dominance that kept people using it no matter how bad it was just because everyone else was using it. MacOS has nothing to keep the customers around when the quality turns to crap.
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Fake News???
Fake password field.
You can hide the „update to High Sierra“ in the „Updates“ section in the Mac App Store.
Just hold ctrl and klick on the huge Mac OS High Sierra picture which takes up half of the page. There’s now the option to hide it.
Stuff like this really makes me wish that Apple would take 2-3 years for each major OS release. Put in new features, QA test the heck out of them, etc.
This doesn't work for Network (AD joined) non-admin accounts at least. Tried several ways to get it to unlock, only the actual administrator password worked.
- Based on some others testing it and confirming it works - maybe it only works for local Admin accounts - will test that next.
- Based on some others testing it and confirming it works - maybe it only works for local Admin accounts - will test that next.
Probably not too big of an issue, but just in line with recent Apple software quality control issues indeed.
iOS 11 also has a noticeable amount of bugs, I get operational and visual bugs on iPhone X and iPad Pro 10.5 about daily. If I pay more than a thousand bucks on mobile devices, I expect perfection, especially from Apple.
iOS 11 also has a noticeable amount of bugs, I get operational and visual bugs on iPhone X and iPad Pro 10.5 about daily. If I pay more than a thousand bucks on mobile devices, I expect perfection, especially from Apple.
I was able to unlock it with any invalid username and password, not just an invalid password.
is Apple hiring cheap labor overseas to work on macOS?
is Apple hiring cheap labor overseas to work on macOS?