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kahwee 7:25 pm on August 2, 2009 Reply
Tags: apple (21), defcon, exploit (3), firmware, hack, keyboard (4), keystroke logging

Just when Apple is still dealing with th…

Just when Apple is still dealing with the bad publicity gathered through the recent SMS exploit, the guys at DEFCON demonstrated how a keylogger can be planted into Apple keyboards via hacking the firmware. The full story here: http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/07/31/apple-keyboard-firmware-hack-demonstrated/

This hack cannot be performed remotely.

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