Worst Ever: Hijacking a Macbook in 60 Seconds #Two
This entry was posted on 9/12/2006 5:53 PM and is filed under Technology '06 - 01.
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By AmericasNewsToday.Org staff
Apple's mean-spirited ad campaign -- t
elevision spot: Two men stand side by side in front of a featureless, white background. "Hello, I'm a Mac," says the guy on the right (who is much younger and dressed in jeans). "And I'm No One," says the guy on the left -- who wears dorky glasses, a big fake nose, and a jacket and tie -- the two men discuss the danger of spyware on PCs.
Oh...really? -- the last time we check Apple had issues with their wireless drivers, allowing hacking into the systems.
During last month's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, hackers Jon Ellch and David Maynor presented a video demonstration targeting a specific security flaw in the Macbook's wireless "device driver," the software that allows the internal wireless card to communicate with the underlying OS X operating system. While those device driver flaws are particular to the Macbook -- and presently not publicly disclosed -- Maynor said the two have found at least two similar flaws in device drivers for wireless cards either designed for or embedded in machines running the Windows OS. Still, the presenters said they ultimately decided to run the demo against a Mac due to what Maynor called the "Mac user base aura of smugness on security."
After the demo, Ellch talked about a (hack) tool he's developing that can remotely scan and figure out the chipset and driver version of a wireless device on a Mac/Windows computer. So far, Ellch said the tool currently recognizes 13 different wireless device drivers, breaking them down by operating system and firmware version -- Solution: To fix the problem, you'll need to disable the system's wireless capabilities.
Apple needs to keep the mouth shut, and keep selling iPods until they run out. Seriously, who needs "spyware" when people can have FREE access to your hard drive.
For more information on Apple's wireless security issue, visit "Worst Ever: Hijacking a Macbook in 60 Seconds" HERE.
