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  • Laptop touchpad driver included extra feature: a keylogger

    From Fritz Wuehler@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 13 02:49:13 2017
    XPost: alt.privacy.anon-server


    Flaws in software often offer a potential path for attackers to
    install malicious software, but you wouldn't necessarily expect
    a hardware vendor to include potentially malicious software
    built right into its device drivers. But that's exactly what a
    security researcher found while poking around the internals of a
    driver for a touchpad commonly used on HP notebook computers—a
    keystroke logger that could be turned on with a simple change to
    its configuration in the Windows registry.

    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/touchpad- driver-with-keylogger-found-on-hp-may-affect-many-other-
    notebooks/

    Installing an external firewall is a good way to go also. pfSense running with Snort and pfBlockerNG is the choice to make. Snort and pfBlockerNG are run by people who are continuously finding and blocking the badies. Snort is free, but if you want
    daily updates, you have to pay a wopping $2.50/month. You have to pay a year at a time - $30.00 at one time.

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