Friday Morning News

A scary new security vulnerability can permanently give malicious software a backdoor into your Mac. The bootkit requires physical access to the machine, but only so the attacker can attach a Thunderbolt device which overrides the Mac’s default firmware signatures, replacing them with ones which render the bootkit impossible to detect. Even more concerning is that this particular backdoor survives…


Originally published at: http://appletalk.com.au/2015/01/friday-morning-news090115/