Lion Permissions Oversight Lets Non Admin User To Change Other Account Passwords
Apple usually does a commendable job patching the Mac’s security flaws in a rapid order as they arise. Numerous holes have been plugged, bugs squashed and exploits fixed as they are discovered over the years. And just when you thought Lion couldn’t be drastically compromised, arrives a new exploit based on Apple’s old Achille’s heel: The permissions system in OS X. CNET warns that any local user on a Lion machine can quite easily change passwords of any other local account, without admin privileges – how spooky is that?...