“Oh don’t worry,” your uncle said when you were shopping for a new computer. “Macs are virtually virus proof.” Your uncle was wrong.

A team of white hat hackers just announced the development of the world’s first firmware worm that’s vicious enough to break through Apple’s legendary security. The so-called Thunderstrike 2 attack can be delivered through a phishing email or a peripheral device like a USB stick or even an ethernet adaptor. The worm then targets a machine’s option ROM or lives in the option ROM of peripherals so that even computers not connected to a network can be infected. It also can’t be removed from the firmware unless you open up the box and manually re-flash the chip. Oh, and the worm can’t be detected by any existing security software, so good luck with that.

http://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-first-firmware-worm-for-mac-is-here-and-it-1721740928?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

What's the point of it?

How do the White Hat hackers benefit from the regular everyday non-centrafuge owner?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/03/2015 03:47PM by Numbers.

They *puts on tinfoil hat* are trying to force everyone to use the new Windows 10 so they can track everyone....

*takes off tinfoil but leaves it neat for next time*

Free Sophos anti-virus for Mac will block this. Good try Microsoft!

gerrymanderer2 (OP) posts several lies on ffu daily - many\.10think he's a fx co gov worker who is getting paid to do it for false DNC democrat "advertising". he floods ffu with useless posts to bump down major news, posts fecal matter, mutilated bodies, child porn, foreign drug ads and sneaker ads, tells people to kill themselves and government should seize them and put them on psych pills in prison - decided by democrat gov of course, promotes kangaroo courthouse trials, gives anti-religious rants, gives satanic ritual rants, posts black males with large dicks on white young females, portends white low birth rate and fall of USA, food tampering/poisoning, and anything possible to DEMORALIZE white people on ffu. (perhaps a chinese prisoner or isis member - but definitely knowledgeable of fx co gov from the inside at times). the website operator has told him "not to post or return" which are still posted - not removed, by the sysop: not because of a political leaning but for continual illegal and gross spam along with messages that are only to demoralize if not kill others. he/she plays at financial terrorism as well: continuall reporting false financial data, and fake emergency please from (fake members of the community he makes up)

G2 POSTED THAT FROM AN ASIAN WEB SITE

THERE IS NO EVIDENCE APPLE IOS EVER HAD SUCH A VULNERABILITY

meanwhile: what is true is that EVERY CABLE TV PROVIDER ON THE INTERNET HAD TO BLOCK PORT 80 OUTBOUND for some years due to Win95 web browser: it was broken and ASIANS CONTINUALLY ATTACKED USA

the Bill Clinton "solution" was not to tell microsoft their busines: but to ORDER all "little people" to shut down their web servers (oh not becasue bill was helping criminals compete in the market: no it was save the internet, clinton said)

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