Source: news.softpedia.com --- Thursday, December 15, 2016
They say Macs are safer than Windows PCs, but Apple’s devices have their own share of vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers to seize full control of the systems. This is exactly what Swedish security expert Ulf Frisk demonstrates with a new device that can steal the password from virtually any Mac that’s sleeping or locked. Frisk explains that it costs approximately $300 to build a hacking device that can be connected to a Mac via the Thunderbolt port – the method hasn’t been tested on Macs with USB Type-C, but there’s a good chance that it still works, especially because the flaw resides in FileVault2. Password stored in clear text in memory Specifically, the vulnerability that makes this hack possible exposes the Mac to Direct Memory Access (DMA) exploits because it allows Thunderbolt devices to read and write memory. The password to the encrypted disk... ( read more ) ...
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