{"id":129903,"date":"2021-11-02T20:25:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T03:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/microsoft-discovers-a-new-vulnerability-in-macos-and-takes-the-opportunity-to-revive-the-debate-about-whether-macs-need-antivirus"},"modified":"2021-11-02T20:25:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T03:25:35","slug":"microsoft-discovers-a-new-vulnerability-in-macos-and-takes-the-opportunity-to-revive-the-debate-about-whether-macs-need-antivirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/microsoft-discovers-a-new-vulnerability-in-macos-and-takes-the-opportunity-to-revive-the-debate-about-whether-macs-need-antivirus","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft discovers a new vulnerability in macOS and takes the opportunity to revive the debate about whether Macs need antivirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-discovers-a-new-vulnerability-in-macos-and-takes-the-opportunity-to-revive-the-debate-about-whether-macs-need-antivirus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft 365 Defender security research team discovered a new vulnerability in macOS that allows an attacker to bypass the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/es-es\/guide\/security\/secb7ea06b49\/web\">System integrity protection<\/a> or SIP. This is <strong>a critical security feature in macOS<\/strong> which uses kernel permissions to limit the ability to write critical system files.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft explains that they also found a similar technique that could allow an attacker to gain elevated root privileges on an affected device, basically <strong>allowing to install a rootkit on macOS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Microsoft 365 Defender security research team discovered a new vulnerability in macOS that allows an attacker to bypass the System integrity protection or SIP. This is a critical security feature in macOS which uses kernel permissions to limit the ability to write critical system files. Microsoft explains that they also found a similar technique [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}