The company's spokesperson said in a statement that the patch can be manually downloaded (via the support page), and the update would be automatically installed on all systems running High Sierra later in the day. "Security is a top priority for every Apple product, and regrettably we stumbled with this release of macOS. This morning, as of 8 a.m., the update is available for download, and starting later today it will be automatically installed on all systems running the latest version (10.13.1) of macOS High Sierra. According to the researchers, the bug gives hackers full control of a Mac running on High Sierra by simply typing "root" as the username during the login prompt. As far as security is concerned, the macOS bug can be seen as one of the most potentially dangerous flaws that Apple has faced.

Source: India Today November 30, 2017 06:00 UTC