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Subject: Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 13:28:27 +0000 (UTC)
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http://www.wired.com/2015/08/researchers-create-first-firmware-worm-attacks-macs/

| THE COMMON WISDOM when it comes to PCs and Apple computers is
| that the latter are much more secure.  Particularly when it comes
| to firmware, people have assumed that Apple systems are locked down
| in ways that PCs aren't.
|
| It turns out this isn't true.  [...]

Billy Y..
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