Joe Root sends defiant message to England flops: Captain issues double warning

But just days after sickness cruelly knocked him out of the last Test in Sydney, England’s skipper delivered a defiant message to his tormentors. Root told them: “Enjoy it for two years because we’ll be ready for you when you come to England.” And he vowed to be “in a completely different place talking about […]

Accountancy takes root in the inhospitable soil of Afghanistan

Waiting for the auditor WHEN Afghan lawmakers were debating rules of conduct for accountants, some were confounded by their strictness. Why should those found guilty of murder, asked one member of parliament, be struck off? That is a sign of the challenges facing the professional body for bean-counters, Certified Professional Accountants (CPA) Afghanistan, which was […]

Smith’s glowing Root praise

Video Smith’s glowing Root praise0:31 Cricket: Aussie skipper Steve Smith is praising England captain Joe Root’s character after he returned to the field on Day 5 following a stint in hospital due to severe dehydration. January 8th 2018 13 minutes ago /display/newscorpaustralia.com/Web/NewsNetwork/Sport news and galleries/Cricket news and galleries/ Cricket Lyon takes down Ali seven times […]

Ashes: Joe Root hits back at Ricky Ponting after captaincy slam

The England skipper, who named one change for the Boxing Day Test handing Tom Curran a debut in place of the injured Craig Overton, was labelled as “soft” by the Australian legend earlier this week. But Root brushed off the barbs on the eve of the Boxing Day showpiece saying that Ponting neither knows him […]

Ashes: Joe Root claims England can still win the Ashes despite heavy second Test defeat

The Three Lions had a nightmare final day in Adelaide where they lost Chris Woakes to the second ball of the day – and that set the pace for the rest of the morning. Josh Hazlewood turned up the heat with the ball and then the big one fell – Root dismissed following an awkward […]

Joe Root gives England hope of remarkable run chase in Adelaide with captain's performance

England bowled out Australia in their second innings for 138, to set a target of 354 to win. Yet Root with 67 and Chris Woakes who was sent up the order to help lock down proceedings after the Dawid Malan fell 10 minutes from the close, left the field unbeaten at the close with England […]

Apple’s macOS ‘root’ bug can be reopened by updating

After news broke of a devastating security flaw in its most recent version of macOS, Apple responded quickly by releasing a patch. Installing Security Update 2017-001 on either macOS 10.13 or 10.13.1 will resolve a problem that allowed anyone to login with admin access simply by typing the username “root” and leaving the password blank, […]

Updating macOS can bring back the nasty “root” security bug

Enlarge (credit: Andrew Cunningham) The serious and surprising root security bug in macOS High Sierra is back for some users, shortly after Apple declared it fixed. Users who had not installed macOS 10.13.1 and thus were running a prior version of the OS when they received the security update, found that installing 10.13.1 resurfaced the […]

New security update fixes macOS root bug

Enlarge (credit: Samuel Axon) Yesterday we learned that Apple had made a serious security error in macOS—a bug that, under certain conditions, allowed anyone to log in as a system administrator on a Mac running High Sierra by simply typing in “root” as the username and leaving the password field blank. Apple says that vulnerability […]