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Apple keyboards hacked and possessed

August 1st, 2009 George Ou Leave a comment Go to comments

Apple keyboard hacked and possessedIf 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

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  1. nucrash
    August 3rd, 2009 at 05:00 | #1
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    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

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