Hijacking a Macbook in 60 Seconds or Less

Hijacking a Macbook in 60 Seconds or Less

UPDATE, 6:45 p.m. ET: Watch the video of the Ellch/Maynor presentation on a new method they discovered for remotely circumventing the security of an Apple Macbook computer to seize total control over the machine. For background and details, see the text below the video player for this morning's post.

Jon "Johnny Cache" Ellch and David Maynor put on a demonstration today at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on how to hack the low-level computer code that powers many internal and external wireless cards installed in Windows and Macintosh systems. (Video courtesy Ellch and Maynor)

Original Post -- 7:30 a.m. ET, Aug. 2:

If you want to grab the attention of a roomful of hackers, one sure fire way to do it is to show them a new method for remotely circumventing the security of an Apple Macbook computer to seize total control over the machine.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/08/hijacking_a_macbook_in_60_seco.html