Hacked by an iPod

By Ryan Block

Well, at least one person is going to be celebrating
(but for all the wrong reasons, trust us) this interesting tidbit that's passed through the pipes; a recently discovered security flaw in the Firewire (aka IEEE 1394, or iLink) spec, which we first saw pop up on VulnWatch, lets a connected device gain elevated access and/or control of any kind of computer without the perpetrator having to do anything more than plug in, say, an iPod (loaded with the appropriate software, of course) via Firewire. So yes, you too may soon find yourself |-|@><0R3|) by teh iPodz0r. It's very unlikely that this will actually happen to
you, to say the least, but if you ever wanted a
reason to
switch to
USB...

[Thanks, Joe]

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