Shannon Morse

ACTION ALERT (Patreon)

Published:

2021-01-20 18:00:04

Imported:

2022-07

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https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-mint-fixes-screensaver-bypass-discovered-by-two-kids/

This hilarious action alert is brought to you by two little kids who wanted to "hack" their dad's computer. They eventually banged on the on-screen keyboard enough that they crashed the screen saver in Linux Mint and accessed the desktop. Action alert: update Mint to the newest patch that addresses this bug. lol

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Linux Mint fixes screensaver bypass discovered by two kids | ZDNet

The Linux Mint project has patched this week a security flaw that could have allowed a threat actor to bypass the OS screensaver and its password and access locked desktops. This particularly nasty security flaw was discovered by two kids playing on their dad's computer, according to a bug report on GitHub.