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Mac OS X Lion reveals passwords in sleep mode? | The Digital Home – CNET News

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/08

If you have a Mac, and enabled automatic login, then it is vulnerable to a FireWire password snooping bug.

Looking at that article, you should either:

  • turn it off
  • disable FireWire
  • disable automatic login and reboot

–jeroen

via: Mac OS X Lion reveals passwords in sleep mode? | The Digital Home – CNET News.

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