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Apple MacBooks, Wintel Notebooks Vulnerable To Wireless Attack
_kill__bill:
http://www.informationweek.com/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=191601574&subSection=Viruses+and+Patches
Looks like the Mac isn't as secure as Apple says.
--- Quote ---On Wednesday afternoon at the Black Hat computer security conference in Las Vegas, hackers Jon "Johnny Cache" Ellch and Dave Maynor plan to demonstrate how to take over any Apple MacBook if its wireless card is turned on, even if the owner is not connected to a wireless network.
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Nasty.
--- Quote --- Wireless device drivers for computers running both Apple Computer and Microsoft operating systems appear to be full of holes, and a prominent security researcher recommends turning off wireless cards until the holes can be fixed.
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Affects Windows as well.
[OFFTOPIC]Which confirms my suspicion that Apple is just like Microsoft with better PR.[/OFFTOPIC]
H_TeXMeX_H:
Well, it seems that Apple is just as vulnerable to haking via wireless card as M$, but still not as vulnerable to viruses, trojans, malware etc.
WMD:
--- Quote from: kill__bill ---Which confirms my suspicion that Apple is just like Microsoft with better PR.
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So Apple falls victim to a single problem involving Intel's wireless card (for which they probably don't write the drivers), and suddenly they are "like Microsoft?" That's quite a jump.
worker201:
That's the big problem with the Apple switch to Intel. We get all the faulty buggy spying hardware that was supposed to only be for PCs.
(Yes, that's right, I said it - Intel is under contract to Microsoft to assist in data collection. As a part of their ongoing plan to create a Christian secular state which can then take over the world. Microsoft, Intel, Coca-Cola, GM, and AOL-Time-Warner are part of the global conspiracy to take over the world. It will begin in Rohan. I mean, it will begin in Lebanon.)
(you laugh, but you don't know I'm only 5% joking)
Refalm:
--- Quote from: worker201 ---Yes, that's right, I said it - Intel is under contract to Microsoft to assist in data collection. As a part of their ongoing plan to create a Christian secular state which can then take over the world. Microsoft, Intel, Coca-Cola, GM, and AOL-Time-Warner are part of the global conspiracy to take over the world. It will begin in Rohan. I mean, it will begin in Lebanon.
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I hate conspiracy theories being "in" again :(
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