Update - HP Business Laptops Are Logging User Keystrokes
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Editor's Note: This story has been updated on Friday, May 12, with a comment from HP vice president Mike Nash.
If you use one of HP’s business PCs -- an EliteBook, ZBook or ProBook -- your laptop may have come with a preloaded keylogger recording everything you type into an unencrypted log file. Swiss security group ModZero first discovered the security flaw in the preloaded Conexant audio driver that appears on many of these notebooks. The driver is supposed to be watching to see if you hit keys that launch certain audio functions, but instead writes every single stroke into an easily-accessible text file.
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http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/hp-keylogger-installed
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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hp-keylogger-audio-driver-m...
it's getting so you can't trust anyone nowadays!
Looks like I'll have to break out my old Atari for all my computing needs.
HP Says Keylogger Was Just Non-Disabled Debugging Tool, Updates
After it was revealed that an audio driver installed on several HP laptops contained a feature that secretly recorded every keystroke entered into the computer, we reached out to HP for comment and were informed by a member of the company’s crisis communications team that a new audio driver is now available with the keylogging feature removed.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hp-keylogger-debugging-tool...
Never argue with a pig. It makes you look foolish and it anoys the hell out of the pig!
I'm not surprised...
There's no such thing as privacy anymore. Every time we connect to the internet we are being bombarded by virus, malware and etc.
EGMJR