Flaw in MacBook EFI allows boot ROM malware

By iftttpYoHns6
Wednesday, December 24th, 2014
Flaw in MacBook EFI allows boot ROM malware
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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