Archive for September, 2016
Intercepting Passwords to Escalate Privileges on OS X
Posted by scriptjunkie in Uncategorized on September 17, 2016
A few weeks ago, a lot of attention was paid to Dropbox for “hacking” macs. Dropbox asked for your admin password when it was installed, then used that root access to enable privileges later even if you try to disable them. Despite the internet’s indignation and Dropbox’s impoliteness, Dropbox wasn’t exploiting any vulnerability or breaking […]