The latest episode of our weekly security podcast - a quarter-hour of news with attitude! Enjoy. Update Tuesday, Firefox's zero-day, more Android bugginess, a firmware virus for your Mac ...and a tax fraudster busted.
The latest OS X beta, version 10.10.2, is in the hands of developers and hints that users will soon be getting fixes for the devilish Thunderstrike vulnerability and 3 Project Zero bugs.
Security researcher Trammell Hudson wondered how deeply you could embed a rootkit into a Mac. Forget hacking the kernel, or even the boot sector...what about targeting the Boot ROM chip itself?