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Flaw in MacBook EFI allows boot ROM malware

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Wednesday, December 24th, 2014

Next week at the 31st Chaos Communication Congress (31C3) in Hamburg, programmer/hacker Trammell Hudson will present research on ways to infect Apple EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware using the externally accessible Thunderbolt ports.

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Hillary Clinton talks NSA and privacy, data security, tech jobs in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO—Privacy and security are in a necessary but inevitable tension, reflected former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton while speaking at data storage and software provider Nexenta’s OpenSDx Summit on Thursday.

Posted on: September 11, 2014 1:43 am

Poll Shows Broad Impact of Cyberattacks

Just fewer than half of Americans say that a retailer, bank or credit-card company has told them or a household member that their payment card details were stolen in a data breach, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.

Posted on: December 20, 2014 12:28 pm

A Google Site Meant to Protect You Is Helping Hackers Attack You

Before companies like Microsoft and Apple release new software, the code is reviewed and tested to ensure it works as planned and to find any bugs. Hackers and cybercrooks do the same.

Posted on: September 11, 2014 6:27 am

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