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Researchers demo BIOS attack that survives hard-disk wipe

Researchers demo BIOS attack that survives hard-disk wipeI wonder if EFI can be infected?This sounds like a pretty nasty problemlet's hope antivirus vendors find a way to defend bios.RE: Researchers demo BIOS attack that survives hard-disk wipeThe BIOS can be flasheddoes that fix it?Abut Linux is secureThey could not infect...

Tags: BIOS, BIOS attack, hard drive, attack

Discussion threads 2009-03-23

Is Intel a safe bet for Apple security?

Macs have largely been immune to the viruses that plague Windows PCs. Experts pitch in on whether the Intel chip switch will change that. Apple Computer's switch to Intel chips is no reason to raise the security alarm, experts say. Yes, Macs will have the same...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, PC, Operating System, Apple Inc., Windows PC, Hardware, Intel Corp., Chip, Attack, BIOS Attack, Security, Joris Evers

News items 2005-06-07

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'Evil Maid' USB stick attack keylogs TrueCrypt passphrases

nonsenseanybody who is truly concerned about security will have set the BIOS to require a password at boot...and will set 'boot from USB' to 'Disabled'.Can't you password protect from even booting up?I assume we are talking about business class laptops.InterestingPhysical security is paramount - especially when it comes to data...

Tags: Notebooks, maid, BIOS, laptop computer, USB, Evil Maid, hard drive, Evil, attack

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Apple confirms malware protection in Snow Leopard

They say Americans don't understand ironyNo irony there, Jason. Any degree of immunity that OS X has to malware is exactly because of such measures.I am gonna love.....to see the people make excuses for the reason for this. You can't say one thing and then do another in the...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Spyware, Pwn2Own, virus, malware, trojan horse, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

55,000 Web sites hacked to serve up malware cocktail

The key words..."PC users"Another WIndows exploit?How can this possibly be happening. According to most of the Windows fan boys on ZDnet, it isn't even necessary to run antivirus with super-secure WIndows. Ahh, silly me, I forgot - these 'power users' represent about 0.0000001% of the real world's Windows user base....

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Web site development, SECURITY, Spyware, malware, Microsoft Windows, malware cocktail, trojan horse, Apple Safari, Web site, Web

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Twitter attack: Bots may have been hardest hit

To read the coverage of yesterday's Denial-of-Service attack on Twitter, you'd think it was the end of the online world. But to put things in perspective as it relates to Twitter and the number of people who are using the service - and hit hardest by the outage - consider...

Tags: Robot, Bot, Twitter, Attack, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-07

News to know: Apple security; Windows 7 bug?; Cisco; HP

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Apple warns of Mac attack risk via image files About the Mac OS X v10.5.8 Update ...

Tags: Security, Apple Macintosh, Hewlett-Packard Co., T-Mobile, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Camera, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, 3G, Operating Systems, Software, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-06

News to know: Microsoft; Apple; Google; Hack attacks

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search) Microsoft denies holding up Win 7 tools...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Corporate Governance, Microsoft Windows 7, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Apple Mac OS, Keyboards, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Peripherals, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-04

Researchers find insecure BIOS 'rootkit' pre-loaded in laptops

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...

Tags: Laptop Computer, Rootkits, BIOS, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Hardware, Components, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-30

Chrome OS: good for you; bad for Microsoft

Chrome OS: good for you; bad for MicrosoftWhat happens?How will it work if the internet is down, or you do not have connectivety for some reason?How is it fair for this OS to have the browser embedded so deeply in it, but Google argues against Microsoft doing that to the...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux, Google Chrome OS, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., operating system, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

News to know: Exectweet, Twitter, Intel options, iPhone 3.0, Vista share

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft + Federated Media + Twitter = ExecTweets Exectweets: Nice, but not the revenue plan for...

Tags: Revenue, Apple iPhone, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Sam Diaz, Netbook, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Accounting, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

Blog posts 2009-03-24

Researchers demo BIOS attack that survives hard-disk wipe

A pair of Argentinian researchers have found a way to perform a BIOS level malware attack capable of surviving even a hard-disk wipe. The researchers -- Alfredo Ortega and Anibal Sacco from Core Security Technologies -- used the stage at last week's CanSecWest conference to demonstrate methods...

Tags: Hard Drive, Researcher, Attack, BIOS, Rootkits, Security, Hardware, Components, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-03-23

Study: Apple logo stimulates the brain

Study: Apple logo stimulates the brainPeople Exposed To Windows Logo, HoweverAre still drooling on their keyboards and uttering incoherently.Might stimulate the stomach...but the brain?;-)What was the creativity test?If the test was: create your own watery looking logo, then, it may be true...RE: Study: Apple logo stimulates the brainThis could be...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., Apple Logo, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-22

Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bug

Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bugsweetThis is nice and all but how bout a fix for the norton 360 bug?RE: Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bugWhy one earth is this tagged for security?"Exploit code, Data theft, Denial of Service DoS, Malware,"It's not a security bug that...

Tags: Web browsers, Notebooks, password, Mozilla Firefox, security, password manager bug, Password Manager

Discussion threads 2008-09-28

Microsoft downplays BitLocker password leakage

Microsoft is downplaying the severity of a password leakage issue in BitLocker, the full disk encryption feature built into Windows Vista, insisting that a real world attack scenario is "very unlikely." According to an advisory from iViZ, the password checking routine of Microsoft Bitlocker fails to sanitize...

Tags: Password, Microsoft Corp., BitLocker, BIOS, Hardware, Components, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska's Black Hat flaw

Intel has shipped a BIOS update with a fix for a privilege escalation vulnerability that was used by rootkit researcher Joanna Rutkowska to bluepill the Xen hypervisor. The vulnerability was discussed by Rutkowska at the Black Hat briefings earlier this month but details on the exploit were...

Tags: Black Hat, Hypervisor, Motherboard, BIOS Update, Intel Corp., Flaw, System Management Mode, Level Privilege, BIOS, Virtualization, Hardware, Components, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs

Kris Kaspersky, author of numerous books on reverse engineering and software engineering, will be presenting his research on remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs at the upcoming Hack in the Box Security Conference in Malaysia. If his proof of concept code consisting of JavaScript or TCP/IP packet attacks on...

Tags: CPU, Intel Corp., Processors, Security, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-14

XP SP3: Now on Windows Update

XP SP3: Now on Windows UpdateVirus attack the header exclusivelyFor file conversion the header is renamed.Header is CPU,BIOS and so on.The header identifies the file type,CPU speed and BIOS settings.The header resides in the L1 cache.Only hackers can access the header.Don't see anything in it I need.So I guess I'll...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, header, F/OSS, flaw, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-05-06

Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air (updated)

Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air updatedWell, as they sayToo much of a good thing can be bad.Hacker computerThey must switch the CPU with a hacked CPU.Geek-tech globs it on.Thermal grease is only there to fill...any gaps due to imperfections in the heat sink and the cpu...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Federal government, Thermal Grease, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., assembler

Discussion threads 2008-04-30

PC Industry Episode II: Attack of the Mac Clones

As I am sure like many of you, I watched the entire Psystar imbroglio unfold last week, snickering under my breath with unabated amusement while I imagined the collective blood pressures of Apple executives boil to a protective fever, with armies of attorneys ready to stream out in phalanx attack...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Attack, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-04-21