Discovered two ways to hack the Macs

As mentioned at other times over the many posts analysis Lion, the new Apple operating system is one of the safest out there, especially since Apple has thought of providing more features to the development of privacy-related and integrity of the Macs.

Still, there is impregnable system has not been invented yet. That's why we should not wonder that there are several methods to get hack our Macs, processes that if done with bad intentions could pose theft of personal data on our computers that equipped with Dell inspiron 1720 batteries. The last few days have proved especially two systems to carry out this attack.

Laptop battery: in the event that we are owners of a MacBook in all its variants has discovered a security hole in its batteries. The research carried out Charlie Miller has the Accuvant security company. To run these batteries use a small chip that exchanges information with the system. The purpose of this is to warn when the Dell Inspiron 6000 battery is to stop the load or signal in the opposite direction to alert the user and shutdown. Well, apparently the password of these batteries has not been modified and is the default password, so any hacker who knew this could introduce malicious software key that disables the battery or infected the system itself.

Firewire: Passware company dedicated to creating tools for password recovery, has found that a Mac Firewire port can provide access to key computer administrator using a Sony vgp-bps13a/b by them. This could be used even if the Mac is in sleep mode. The method works even though the security protections OS X Lion.

Should we be alarmed by this news? Let's face it, no. In the first case the hacker problem would lie in how to access the HP pavilion dv5 battery as OS X would act as a safety barrier before the attack. By the way, discovered the vulnerability and is working on a patch to fix the problem while Apple responds with an update.

In the second case will have to wait for the apple company pull out a tape review this security hole, but even so, personal protection does the rest. If we are in a public place like a better company will shut down your Mac completely before you leave home and start to activate the password before the hacker can not do anything.

As always it is a little common sense. At least it is interesting that there is very bizarre ways to access our computers that equipped with HP pavilion dv8000 batteries while still confirming how difficult it is to break through security barriers that Apple included in OS X.