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Title: Security researcher rewrites Mac firmware over Thunderbolt, says most Intel Thunderbolt Macs vulnerable Post by: HCK on December 30, 2014, 09:00:22 pm Security researcher rewrites Mac firmware over Thunderbolt, says most Intel Thunderbolt Macs vulnerable
A security researcher speaking at the Chaos Computer Congress in Hamburg demonstrated a hack that rewrites an Intel Mac’s firmware using a Thunderbolt device with attack code in an option ROM. Known as Thunderstrike, the proof of concept presented by Trammel Hudson infects the Apple Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) in a way he claims cannot be detected, nor removed by reinstalling OS X. Since […]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=359215&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /> Source: Security researcher rewrites Mac firmware over Thunderbolt, says most Intel Thunderbolt Macs vulnerable (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~3/nEuryHVbegs/) |