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.

Our Projects

Worth Following

Teresa Meek

Business, technology, education, politics, health, lifestyles, and the environment

Worth Reading

Google reveals major flaw in outdated, but widely-used SSL protocol
Google’s Security Team revealed on Tuesday that the long obsolete, but still all too used, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 cryptographic protocol has a major security flaw. While SSL 3.0 has been succeeded by Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0, TLS 1.1, and TLS 1.
Posted on: October 15, 2014 12:21 pm
Why Americans expect privacy: An open letter to FBI Director James Comey
There is no doubt there are bad people in this world. All one has to do is turn on the evening news or open a Web browser. Last week’s shocker was the beheading of Colleen Hufford in an Oklahoma food processing plant.
Posted on: September 29, 2014 10:09 am
The replacements
In the summer of 2014, Craig Diangelo thought he was on the path to an easy retirement. A veteran of the tech industry, Diangelo got his start as a COBOL programmer in the 1970s.
Posted on: April 25, 2017 6:45 pm

Free Download

Online Safety Basics

More online safety videos