Apple keyboards hacked and possessed
If the bad news about all the new critical iPhone and Mac OS X vulnerabilities announced at BlackHat 2009 weren’t bad enough, there now appears to be a new vulnerability in Apple’s hardware. This type of a hack h0wever isn’t something where you can go into an Apple store and have an Apple “genius” exorcise because once the Apple keyboard is infected and locked; there is no practical way of undoing the damage.
Read the rest and see my video interview with the researcher at DigitalSociety.org
In the words of the webbynet gods, “FAIL!”
How often does one update keyboard firmware. I only know of the programmable Terminal keyboards that I deal with. I know where Logitech and others create new hardware which could utilize firmware updates, but I really don’t think there is much need to modify a keyboard’s firmware.
I suppose Apple should introduce a new user interface which is much safer and more secure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA