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Mac Hack Part XVIII: End of the Story?

Filed in archive Wi-Fi by jeff goldman on March 1, 2007

Mac Hack Part XVIII: End of the Story?

ZDNet's Ryan Naraine reports that hacker David Maynor took the stage at Black Hat DC 2007, where he "offered an apology for mistakes made, provided a live demo of the controversial MacBook Wi-Fi takeover and promised to release e-mail exchanges, crash/panic logs and exploit code to clear his tarnished name."


Maynor's demo proved that he was able to crash a MacBook via a device driver flaw. "He then ran the exploit against a fully patched MacBook to prove that Apple did fix the exact issue he reported, even if the company opted not to credit him, his co-presenter Jon 'Johnny Cache' Ellch or his then employer [SecureWorks]," Naraine writes.


"I screwed up a bit [at last year's Black Hat in Las Vegas]," Maynor said. "I probably shouldn't have used an Apple machine in the video demo and I definitely should not have discussed it [with] a journalist ahead of time."


Maynor says full info regarding the flaw will be posted on the Errata Security blog.


More here from CNET ... more here from SearchSecurity.com ... more here from Dark Reading ... more here from SecurityFocus ... and more here from Wi-Fi Networking News.


Photo above is from ZDNetlinks.








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