{"id":249,"date":"2011-07-27T09:20:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T13:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2011-07-27T09:20:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T13:20:33","slug":"battery-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Battery Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Miller, a researcher with Accuvant Labs, has discovered an interesting new flaw in Apple&#8217;s software ecosystem. Their &#8220;Smart Battery System&#8221;, which monitors battery charging and power levels, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2011\/07\/apple_battery\/\">can actually be compromised and the firmware reflashed<\/a>, allowing an attacker to destroy a battery or perhaps even make it explode or catch fire.<\/p>\n<p>Boom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Miller, a researcher with Accuvant Labs, has discovered an interesting new flaw in Apple&#8217;s software ecosystem. Their &#8220;Smart Battery System&#8221;, which monitors battery charging and power levels, can actually be compromised and the firmware reflashed, allowing an attacker to destroy a battery or perhaps even make it explode or catch fire. Boom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploits","category-physical-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}