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Apple Laptop Black: Mac Laptop Batteries Could Run Malware

22.05.60 The batteries familiar in many Mac laptop computers are vulnerable to attack, meaning they could potentially be made to storm or run malicious code, according to security researcher Charlie Miller, who will put forward his findings at the Black Hat... Miller’s research takes as its starting point up the fact that laptop batteries now include advanced microcontrollers that interface with the computer’s operating system and guide the battery ’s ability to charge. Mac laptops helpless Miller, who is principal research consultant at Accuvant Labs, focused on an embedded controller acclimated to in lithium ion and lithium polymer batteries and hardened in a large number of MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops . Using that open sesame, Miller was able to reverse engineer the firmware and the firmware flashing manage for the controller in question.

Source: eWEEK Europe UK