Researchers find insecure BIOS 'rootkit' pre-loaded in laptops
Ryan Naraine: LAS VEGAS — A popular laptop theft-recovery service that ships on notebooks made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Gateway, Asus and Panasonic is actually a dangerous BIOS rootkit that can be hijacked and controlled by malicious hackers. The service — called Computrace LoJack for Laptops — contains design vulnerabilities and a lack of strong authentication? that [...]


Thu Jul 30 13:18:47 PDT 2009
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