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

[Roland Gesthuizen]

In a sense, all systems have vulnerabilities. The worst are not the unknown but those undiscovered that nobody knows. 

Somebody took advantage of my open access desktop and nicked my year 11 Nelson text book, complete with sticky notes, private annotations and custom dog ears. It still had some months to live before the next upgrade cycle.


Regards Roland

> On 4 Aug 2015, at 1:45 pm, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
> 
> 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/
>  <http://www.wired.com/2015/08/researchers-create-first-firmware-worm-attacks-macs/>
> 
> -- 
> 
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> How many moles are in a mole of moles?
> 
> Mark Kelly
> 
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