[Year 12 IT Apps] Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs

[Mark]

Greetings, chalk-abusers

"THE COMMON WISDOM when it comes to PCs and Apple computers is that the
latter are much more secure. Particularly when it comes to firmware, people
have assumed that Apple systems are locked down in ways that PCs aren’t.

"It turns out this isn’t true. Two researchers have found that several
known vulnerabilities affecting the firmware of all the top PC makers can
also hit the firmware of MACs. What’s more, the researchers have designed a
proof-of-concept worm for the first time that would allow a firmware attack
to spread automatically from MacBook to MacBook, without the need for them
to be networked."

Read more
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/researchers-create-first-firmware-worm-attacks-macs/

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Mark Kelly


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