The Washington Post

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. That’s exactly what hackers Jon “Johnny Cache” Ellch and David Maynor plan to show today in their Black Hat presentation on hacking the low-level computer code that powers many internal and external wireless cards on the market today.

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This problem affects most if not all wireless device drivers that haven’t been audited for security (which would be most of them). When not in use wireless should be disabled, ideally with a hardware switch (contained on many laptops).

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Posted by Kurt.Seifried on Thursday, August 3rd, 2006, at 3:33 am, and filed under Articles, Technical.

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