Thunderstrike 2: Mac firmware worm details

Re:Thunderstrike 2: Mac firmware worm details by Svenstaro on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @03:36PM (#10043751)

Why do exploits tend to have such ridiculously good names recently?

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Re:Thunderstrike 2: Mac firmware worm details by micampe on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @04:18PM (#10044064)

Security researchers have learned that marketing works.

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Re:Thunderstrike 2: Mac firmware worm details by scott_karana on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @06:07PM (#10044735)

Heartbleed appears to have kicked off the "good marketing" of vulnerabilities that others alluded to. :-)

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Re:Thunderstrike 2: Mac firmware worm details by JustSomeNobody on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @09:20PM (#10045478)

I think they go back further than that. There's some pretty popular ones here:

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Re:Thunderstrike 2: Mac firmware worm details by ajtaylor on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @04:32PM (#10044184)

For one thing, it helps when googling for more information.

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Re:Thunderstrike 2: Mac firmware worm details by rdudek on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @03:37PM (#10043761)

The media loves good names so they can spread their fearmongering.

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Re:Thunderstrike 2: Mac firmware worm details by Karunamon on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @04:20PM (#10044085)

I wish more security vulnerabilities were fearmongered. Users caring about it and admins being bugged to fix it is a good thing.

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Re:Thunderstrike 2: Mac firmware worm details by stephengillie on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @03:52PM (#10043870)

Firmware worm? Can we call this "Wormware"?

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Re:Thunderstrike 2: Mac firmware worm details by LinuxBender on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @04:38PM (#10044225)

I saw the name "FirmWorm" used for this vuln.

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