News : Vulnerability in Apple keyboards allows key logging
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Product Reviews writes "Not even a week on since we reported to you about the iPhone vulnerability via SMS that could potentially leave somebody to entirely take over your iPhone, we now have to report on another Apple vulnerability, luckily this time not for the iPhone, but instead a hardware vulnerability with the Apple Keyboards which the Digital Society website has reported.
It seems that this keyboard security flaw is not trivial, but indeed quite serious, enabling the people who exploit it to view every keystroke you make and even take over your machine and infect you with other rubbish, all that these hackers simply need do is update your keyboards firmware with a file that is smaller than 100kb and the entire hack can be performed in a frightening 18 seconds flat! And what’s worse is the fact there is no way of healing it, you simply have to throw away your keyboard. The hack can be performed on USB and Bluetooth keyboards and it seems that it is near impossible to detect, but don’t despair just yet."
Posted on Wednesday, August 05 @ 13:27:03 CDT by sysop
