Root Canal

Presented at Objective by the Sea version 2.0 (2019), June 2, 2019, 11 a.m. (30 minutes)

Apple released System Integrity Protection/rootless with OS X El Capitan almost four years ago. The root account is still there, and many common pieces of software open the Mac up to simple root escalations - including common macOS management tools. How can we detect these vulnerabilities across our Mac fleets? What can root still be abused for in 2019?

Presenters:

• Samuel Keeley - Security Engineer at Airbnb
  Samuel is a Security Engineer focused on user endpoints and access management at Airbnb.

Links:

• https://objectivebythesea.org/v2/talks.html#keeley
• https://objectivebythesea.org/v2/talks/OBTS_v2_Keeley.pdf

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