{"id":346,"date":"2017-03-14T07:31:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T07:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/?p=346"},"modified":"2017-03-14T07:31:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T07:31:13","slug":"apple-macbook-laptop-batteries-susceptible-to-hack-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batteries-company.com\/battery-care\/apple-macbook-laptop-batteries-susceptible-to-hack-attacks.htm","title":{"rendered":"Apple MacBook laptop batteries susceptible to hack attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"laptop<\/a>Now that Apple<\/a> has endowed the Mac operating system with state-of-the-art security protections, a researcher has devised new attacks that target the machine’s battery.<\/p>\n

Charlie Miller, well known for his numerous attacks on iPhones<\/a> and Macs, may not have achieved his ultimate objective of making a Mac spontaneously combust, but he has figured out how to permanently disable the battery. And in time, he said, it also may be possible to remotely hijack a machine by manipulating the firmware on one of the stored power supply’s chips.<\/p>\n

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“What I found was you can make any change you want to the software that runs on the laptop battery<\/a>,” Miller, who is principal research consultant at security firm Accuvant and the other coauthor of The Mac Hacker’s Handbook<\/em>, told The Reg<\/em>. “I also saw that you can mess up the chip so it won’t function anymore. You can’t recover from that. You couldn’t even take it to the genius bar.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The flaw making all of this possible is the result of Apple’s decision to ship MacBook batteries<\/a> without changing the passwords needed to run updates or make low-level changes to their embedded controllers. By reverse-engineering past updates, he had no trouble deducing the pass codes.<\/p>\n

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With these, Miller was able to make changes to the battery firmware that bricked the Apple a1175 battery<\/a>. The hack doesn’t sound all that interesting until you consider that any changes will survive a complete reinstallation of the MacBook\u2019s operating system. Miller theorized that if there’s a way to cause the firmware to exploit a vulnerability in Mac OS X, his laptop battery pack<\/a> hack could open the door to system compromises that persist even after disinfection of reinstallation.<\/p>\n

Miller will be presenting his findings at next month’s Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. At his talk, he will also release a software tool that patches the vulnerability by changing the default passwords that ship with 15 inch macbook pro battery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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