Article 53B7X Incredible how you can steal data via Thunderbolt once you've taken the PC apart, attached a flash programmer, rewritten the firmware...

Incredible how you can steal data via Thunderbolt once you've taken the PC apart, attached a flash programmer, rewritten the firmware...

by
from The Register on (#53B7X)
Full mitigation is buy a newer computer - or don't use suspend-to-RAM

It's possible to extract data from a computer via its Thunderbolt port - once you've got the case off, plugged in a flash programmer, and reprogrammed the controller's firmware to grant access....

External Content
Source RSS or Atom Feed
Feed Location http://www.theregister.co.uk/headlines.atom
Feed Title The Register
Feed Link https://www.theregister.com/
Feed Copyright Copyright © 2024, Situation Publishing
Reply 0 comments