Reverse engineer creates Thunderstrike bootkit able to exploit vulnerability in OS X boot ROM

Friday, January 9, 2015 - 08:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Trammell Hudson, an employee of Two Sigma Investments has found a way to hack into computers running OS X, using a pre programmed hardware device. He calls the software that runs from the device a bootkit because it allows for gaining unprecedented access to Mac computers prior to the point where the operating system is loaded—he has named it Thunderstrike after Mac's Thunderbolt interface.

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