Apple keyboard firmware hack

[Davis Computer Services]

The vulnerability was discovered by K. Chen, and he gave a talk on it at Blackhat this year. The concept is simple, a modern Apple keyboard has about 8K of flash memory, and 256 bytes of working ram. For the intelligent, this is more than enough space to have a field day.



http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/07/31/apple-keyboard-firmware-hack-demonstrated/

[iisjman07]

Eat that... 'Macs don't get viruses' my arse

[Kenhelms]

K. Chen is very careful not to do anything in an illegal way, and you have to do all the steps manually

Virii replicate, and are done auto. Dont think this qualifies as a virus

[AtYourService]

it can be easily translated into a virus