Monday, 3 August 2015
Apple computers have always been touted as more secure than other PCs because their firmware couldn’t be penetrated. Unfortunately, that’s no longer true, as a newly created worm has shown. Wired reports that security researchers Xeno Kovah and Trammell Hudson demonstrated a proof-of-concept worm they’re calling Thunderstrike 2, that’s capable of infecting the BIOS (also known as UEFI or EFI) of a Mac and can’t be removed by flashing the OS or even replacing its hard drive. Plus, Thunderstrike 2 can spread across Macs without a network connection. By installing itself in the option ROM on peripheral devices that you…
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