"APPLE JUST PATCHED A MODEM BUG THAT'S BEEN IN MACS SINCE 1999"

A modem configuration bug has been discovered, that's been in Apple operating systems since 1999. The flaw could have potentially been exploited by an attacker to get persistent, remote root access to any Mac. Only certain generations of OS X and macOS were susceptible of the flaw, and Apple has added protections from an attack like this, since 2016's macOS Sierra that made the bug prohibitively difficult (though still not technically impossible) to exploit in practice.  Apple finally patched the modem configuration bug in April.

WIRED reports: "APPLE JUST PATCHED A MODEM BUG THAT'S BEEN IN MACS SINCE 1999"