Invisible Mouse Clicks Let Hackers Burrow Deep into MacOS
Aug 15, 2018•8 min
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Episode description
One way operating system developers try to protect a computers's secrets from probing hackers is with an appeal to the human at the keyboard. By giving the user a choice to “allow” or “deny” a program’s access to sensitive data or features, the operating system can create a checkpoint that halts malware while letting innocent applications through.
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