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Title: A 30 Second Nap Could Be All a Hacker Needs to Rootkit Your Mac
Post by: HCK on June 02, 2015, 09:00:08 pm
A 30 Second Nap Could Be All a Hacker Needs to Rootkit Your Mac

A new zero-day vulnerability has been discovered on older Mac computers, opening opportunities for hackers to meddle with the system BIOS and install a rootkit.

And it all depends on your computer entering sleep mode...

Source: A 30 Second Nap Could Be All a Hacker Needs to Rootkit Your Mac (http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/rootkit-sleep/)