{"id":30980,"date":"2017-10-02T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=30980"},"modified":"2017-10-01T21:49:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T04:49:23","slug":"newsletter-issue-931-yet-another-questionable-reason-to-feel-insecure-about-your-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2017\/10\/newsletter-issue-931-yet-another-questionable-reason-to-feel-insecure-about-your-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #931: Yet Another Questionable<br>Reason to Feel Insecure About Your Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After I wrote a piece about the latest effort to push antivirus software onto the storage devices of Mac users, I came across another story about security, only this one appears to be dealing with a factual issue. But even then the fears may be overblown, and what about other computing platforms where the potential issues are far worse?<\/p>\n<p>As most of you know, there is a small piece of software that is run by your Mac when it&#8217;s first turned on. The latest technology is known as the Extensible Firmware Interface, EFI. It takes the Mac through a process where it identifies the hardware, makes sure there are no critical errors, such as bad RAM, and turns the startup chores over to the macOS.<\/p>\n<p>Every so often, Apple will issue firmware patches to fix bugs or possibly to deal with potential vulnerabilities to security exploits. And there have been a few of those through the years. What&#8217;s more, there was a recent report about the firmware-based tools such intelligence agencies as the CIA might use to break into one of these computers.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! 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