Announcer live where you live, this is abc 7 news. Physically guard your mac. A warning tonight. It takes one word for anyone, not just hackers, to gain full access to many mac computers. Now apple is working on an emergency fix tonight. Good evening. Im dan ashley. And im kristen sze in or ama daetz. It affects anyone using apples high sierra. Katie marzullo has details. This is like someone knock on the door, open door sesame and thats it. Reporter Cyber Security expert melody mao called apples security flaw mind blowing. If your mac is running the latest version of the high sierra operating system a stranger could log in and gain total access by simply tighting root as the user name. You can do anything and everything. You can delete information from the users account. You can log his account. You can access his bank, his email, his twitter, facebook, anything. Reporter apple unveiled high sierra on september 25th. It came preinstalled on a handful of computer models. People are lov
Root as the user name. You can do anything and everything. You can delete information from the users account. You can log his account. You can access his bank, his email, his twitter, facebook, anything. Reporter apple unveiled high sierra on september 25th. It came preinstalled on a handful of computer models. People are loving sierra, and we love it too. So we wanted to spend this year perfecting it. Reporter apple released a statement that reads in part, we are working on a Software Update to address this issue. In the meantime setting a root password prevents unauthorized access to your mac. The first several apple users we talked with here hadnt yet heard about the problem but those in the know have mixed feelings. Computers are super complex, and you might look at something that seems dumb and we might find out later, well, not so dumb. Im concerned about the fact the Tech Companies are not thinking carefully about issues of security. Reporter until the fix is ready, experts say
Announcer live where you live, this is abc 7 news. Physically guard your mac. A warning tonight. It takes one word for anyone, not just hackers, to gain full access to many mac computers. Now apple is working on an emergency fix tonight. Good evening. Im dan ashley. And im kristen sze in or ama daetz. It affects anyone using apples high sierra. Katie marzullo has details. This is like someone knock on the door, open door sesame and thats it. Reporter Cyber Security expert melody mao called apples security flaw mind blowing. If your mac is running the latest version of the high sierra operating system a stranger could log in and gain total access by simply tighting root as the user name. You can do anything and everything. You can delete information from the users account. You can log his account. You can access his bank, his email, his twitter, facebook, anything. Reporter apple unveiled high sierra on september 25th. It came preinstalled on a handful of computer models. People are lov
That drier air out there keeping us pretty quiet this morning, and you may notice your hands, your throat, your sinuses drier this morning than normal. Your 12hour planner, yeah, for this wednesday. Accuweather 12hour planner says 44 to 48 degrees at 7 00. Look at that. Pretty uniform air mass. 58 to 60 at 4 00. If youre heading out this evening 50 to 52 degrees. Lets get more on whats going on this morning with frances. All right. We have a bad accident on the bay bridge. Its in the eastbound direction. Here is a live shot. Looks like theyre starting to open up the two left lanes but eastbound out of San Francisco past Treasure Island you can see traffic is backing up. Well keep you posted on this big rig accident and injuries have been involved in this crash. Now it could impact traffic at the toll plaza. Still light right now. Well keep you posted this morning. Guys . Frances, thank you. The jury in the kate steinle murder trial is entering a faith day of deciding the fate of Jose I
Assumed it would be much cooler many but today, no too much relief. We spent all day in the water. Andrea quin and her friend stacy enjoyed weather in santa cruz. It is cooler here. The beach is the place to be. Reporter he is expected bigger crowds than usual. Traffic over the mountains. If you are not on 17 by 9 00, forget it. Reporter some local Business Owners say the summer traffic experiment has made matters worse. By the time they see the signs that the road is blocked it is already congested. Reporter this is the last weekend the onramp on highway 17 will be closed for the summer. Reporting live in santa cruz i am michelle roberts. Another hot spot is in the east bay. And you think of livermore. You know it is hot. Jo Jodi Hernandez and has the report. It is unusual to be out here at lunchtime and have no kids running around. Reporter playgrounds have been deserted today. Kids have been spending recess in doors and out of the sun. Throughout the district we are keeping kids and