A Pair of Spanish cybersecurity researchers have discovered a Linux vulnerability that could allow anyone with physical access to a system to log in without a password and launch a variety of attacks. The vulnerability, found in versions of the commonly used Grub2 (GNU Grand Unified Bootloader) bootloader released since 2009, can be exploited by hitting the backspace key 28 times. Named CVE-2015-8370, the vulnerability has a medium severity rating, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Cyber Awareness System notice. The bug can be easily fixed, according to the researchers who discovered it, and a number
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