Reprinted from TidBITS by permission; reuse governed by Creative Commons license BY-NC-ND 3.0. TidBITS has offered years of thoughtful commentary on Apple and Internet topics. For free email subscriptions and access to the entire TidBITS archive, visit http://www.tidbits.com/ Mac EFI Security Update 2015-002 Agen G. N. Schmitz Apple has released [1]Mac EFI Security Update 2015-001 for OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks, which addresses an issue where the EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) could potentially be overwritten without authorization. This update is available as a [2]direct download as well as via Software Update. (Free, 82 MB) References 1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205317 2. https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1848 .