Security News

Cisco spots attackers hijacking its networking gear by modifying firmware (Help Net Security)
2015-08-13 11:19

Cisco has issued an official warning about in-the-wild attacks that resulted in attackers gaining and potentially keeping administrative access to a Cisco IOS device indefinitely. "Cisco has observ...

Macs can be permanently compromised via firmware worm (Help Net Security)
2015-08-04 12:26

Security researchers Xeno Kovah and Trammell Hudson have discovered several flaws in the firmware installed on Apple computers, and have created a worm that can silently infect them and change the fir...

Thunderstrike 2 OS X Firmware Attack Self-Replicates to Peripherals (Threatpost)
2015-08-03 17:51

At Black Hat, researchers are expected to disclose new firmware attacks that work against OS X and self replicated to Thunderbolt peripherals.