MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar Banned During Bar Exams Due to Cheating Concerns

Apple’s new MacBook Pro Touch Bar might be an innovative feature that comes in handy to many buyers, but as far as the Board of Law Examiners in several American states are concerned, this is nothing but a pretty efficient way to cheat during bar exams.

The Board of Examiners of the State of North Carolina published an announcement on its website to inform that applicants need to disable the Touch Bar during tests, and although the organization does not mention cheating specifically, it’s very clear that this is the main concern.

The Touch Bar can be configured to provide word suggestions, and examiners are trying to make sure that MacBook Pros aren’t being used for anything else than conducting the test.

“Please be advised that the Announcing Proctor will make an announcement at the start of the exam session asking anyone who is using a M...

nmap -sV --script vuln -p- <target-network>

tail -f /var/log/suricata/fast.log | grep <cve>

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title: Detect Exploitation - MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar Banned During Bar Exams Due to Cheating Concerns
id: 238bcd7b-a37e-4e26-ae2e-a72e216df630
status: experimental
description: Automatisch generierte SIEM-Erkennungsregel basierend auf CTI Intelligence
references:
  - https://tsecurity.de/
author: iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine
date: 2026-09-24
logsource:
  category: network_connection
  product: any
detection:
  selection:
      CommandLine|contains:
        - 'exploit'
  condition: selection
falsepositives:
  - Legitime administrative Zugriffe oder Penetrationstests
level: high
tags:
  - attack.initial_access

rule CTI_Threat_Indicator {
    meta:
        author = "iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine"
        date = "2026-09-24"
        description = "YARA Signature for "
    strings:
        $str = "MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar Banned" ascii wide
    condition:
        any of them
}