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If you use your iPhone or iPad as a Wi-Fi hotspot, don't let it generate the passphrase for you.
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Computerworld - Apple yesterday patched 36 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, most of them critical, plugging a hole that revealed passwords used to encrypt folders with an older version of FileVault. Both Mac OS X 10.7, aka Lion, and 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard, were updated with fixes.
The two operating systems were last updated in February.
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Apple has released OS X Lion 10.7.4.The update includes performance improvements as well as a bunch of fixes, including the FileVault bug that was re...
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A security flaw rolled out with Apple's latest update to Mac OS X Lion, version 10.7.3, may expose file passwords thought to be protected via Apple's data encryption system.
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Apple has exposed the encryption passwords of FileVault users in the most recent update to OS X Lion.
===> Users are advised to use full disk encryption and change passwords that may have been recorded ... <===
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Although iOS generates seemingly random passwords for its hotspots to eliminate the use of 'default' passwords, researchers at a German university have found that
===> they are able to break these passwords in under a minute. <===
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OS X Lion Updated 10.7.4, released today patches a critical password security vulnerability that was publicized earlier in the week.
===> UPDATE!!! <===
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Apple exposed encryption passwords of FileVault users in its Lion OS X 10.7 security update, says researcher.
===> Emery explained that users can partially protect themselves by using FileVault2 with full disk encryption. <===
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With the latest Lion security update, Mac OS X 10.7.3, Apple has accidentally turned on a debug log file outside of the encrypted area hat stores the user’s password in clear text!
===> Anyone who used FileVault encryption on their Mac prior to Lion, upgraded to Lion, but kept the folders encrypted using the legacy version of FileVault is vulnerable. FileVault 2 (whole disk encryption) is unaffected. <===
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Learn more:
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/dangers-of-wifi-in-public-places/