How to Protect Yourself from macOS High Sierra's Glaring Empty-Password Security Flaw

There's a new macOS vulnerability that hackers within physical reach of your computer can use to gain root access to your system and accounts. Just by using "root" as the username and a blank password on a privilege escalation prompt, someone can install malware on your computer, access hidden files, reset your passwords, and more. Root access gives them the ability to do anything they want. Right now, this only appears to affect Mac users running macOS High Sierra 10.13.1. How to See if Your System in Vulnerable To test if your system could be hacked, go to the "Users & Groups" section in... more

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