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Just because you are running a Mac does not make you less vulnerable to attacks. At Black Hat, a few people showed that a Macbook with wireless can be cracked into in some situations. Bugs will be fixed.
Just because you are running a Mac does not make you less vulnerable to attacks. At Black Hat, a few people showed that a Macbook with wireless can be cracked into in some situations. Bugs will be fixed.
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The video shows Ellch and Maynor 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."