Friday, February 28, 2014

Hey, what's that burning smell - it's nothing, just a cyberattack setting my computer is on fire.



A cyberattack demonstration "frying the machine" was done by targeting the machine's APC embedded controller through a fake firmware update devised by CrowdStrike that spiked the CPU and turned off the fans.


The point, said Alperovitch, is this is a type of cyberattack that enterprises really can expect to see happen in the future, an attack that is not recoverable in terms of data or the machine itself

The link below has more details:

http://www.cio.com/article/748849/RSA_Security_Attack_Demo_Deep_Fries_Apple_Mac_Components

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