Flaw in MacBook EFI allows boot ROM malware

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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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