Apple Laptop Cpu

Apple Laptop Cpu: Hacked Apple batts can brick themselves, attack their computers

25.07.11 That sense of smug you get with your sleek Macbook and its integrated battery may not be usefulness it anymore, as a security researcher has shown that Apple batteries are exposed to hacking. Laptop batteries are way smarter than they used to be. They're so perceptive, in fact, that they come with their own little processor with firmware on it that manages communications between the battery and computer to do things like dominate charging... In the past, Apple has deployed hotfixes for malfunctioning batteries, and by analyzing those hotfixes, protection researcher Charlie Miller was able to gain ground direct access to the battery firmware. Or, you can intimate it to provide false information about charge levels to its computer. If you wanted to be genuinely nasty, you could hide malware inside the battery firmware itself, implication that a user's own battery could launch attacks against the breather of the computer, and no amount of virus scanning or re-installing things would cure.

Source: DVICE