{"id":656,"date":"2022-02-17T11:45:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T12:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/?p=656"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:12:17","slug":"t2-mac-security-vulnerability-means-passwords-can-now-be-cracked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/17\/t2-mac-security-vulnerability-means-passwords-can-now-be-cracked\/","title":{"rendered":"T2 Mac security vulnerability means passwords can now be cracked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/02\/T2-Mac-security-vulnerability-means-encryption-key-can-now-be-cracked.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1500\"><\/div>\n<p>A company selling password-cracking tools says that a newly-discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/t2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">T2<\/a> Mac <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">security<\/a> vulnerability allows it to crack passwords on these machines, bypassing the lockouts.<\/p>\n<p>The method used is far slower than conventional password-cracking tools, but although the total time needed could run into thousands of years, that could fall to as little as 10 hours when the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/mac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mac<\/a> owner has used a more typical password\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"mac,security,t2\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_featured\" data-post-id=\"787589\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2022\/02\/17\/t2-mac-security-vulnerability-passware\/#more-787589\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company selling password-cracking tools says that a newly-discovered T2 Mac security vulnerability allows it to crack passwords on these machines, bypassing the lockouts. The method used is far slower than conventional password-cracking tools, but although the total time needed could run into thousands of years, that could fall to as little as 10 hours&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}