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HP Discloses its Bug Bounty Program and Here’s What You Need To Know. The Palo Alto Calif. based HP Inc., has disclosed what it terms as the industry’s first-ever bug bounty program, which has been launched to inspect printer security relates issues. The print security bug bounty program will be offering up to $10,000 as […]
Engineers at Chinese firm Lenovo have identified a backdoor in the networking switched namely Rackswitch and BladeCenter firmware. The company stated that the backdoor, referred to in the company’s security advisory (CVE-2017-3765) as “HP backdoor,” was discovered after carrying out an internal security audit of firmware for all the products featuring in its portfolio after […]
What HP is calling a security vulnerability is an exploitable keylogger present in Synaptics Touchpad drivers for 460 different HP laptop models. The alleged keylogger was spotted by the security researcher Michael Myng. It allowed the information typed on the machine’s keyboard to be copied somewhere else using a WPP (Windows software trace preprocessor) trace […]
When it comes to pre-installed malicious software, HP (Hewlett-Packard) has a thing for them. In May this year, the tech giant was in the news after security researchers found a pre-installed keylogger in HP machines. Now, a researcher going by the online handle of “Zwclose” has identified the presence of yet another keylogger in HP laptops providing […]
Several HP customers around the world report that HP began distributing “Telemetry Bloatware” on their laptops without informing them or asking for permission. An application marked as spyware is, in fact, a Windows telemetry bloatware distributed by HP, called the HP Touchpoint Analytics Client, which was first identified on November 15. According to various online […]
The vulnerability could be exploited to perform remote code execution. HP has issued firmware patches to fix a security flaw which allowed attackers to perform remote code execution attacks on enterprise-grade printers. FoxGlove Security researchers issued an advisory disclosing the technical details of the bug, CVE-2017-2750, earlier this week. The team tested out HP’s PageWide Enterprise Color MFP […]
Security researchers have warned that HP machines could turn into a spyware thanks to an audio driver developed by Conexant Systems, Inc. which comes pre-installed in more than a dozen of HP devices. According to a security advisory published by Switzerland-based security consulting firm Modzero Conexant, responsible for making audio drivers comes with a component “MicTray64.exe” which is an executable […]
A critical vulnerability in printers has led to the hacking of thousands of printing devices not at just one location or city but across the globe. Reportedly, the flaw was exploited by a hacker called Stackoverflowin, who managed to hack 150,000 printers at a global level. The hacking spree seems to be the hacker’s way […]
Hackers and cyber criminals are gradually upping their game. After exposing exclusive personal information of millions of users through massive data breaches of popular social media platforms and other websites, now these notorious criminals are eyeing high-profile government institutions. And, they are succeeding at that as well. The current occurrence is a clear proof that […]
HP’s business laptops will make over-shoulder snooping impossible. Hewlett-Packard (HP), in partnership with 3M, is coming out with a bang in an attempt to steal competition from its rivals. This time, HP is not inventing a new hybrid notebook or a fancy looking printer, but it is simply adding something that we are familiar with in […]
Security researcher Chris Vickery has discovered that hackers can abuse HP LaserJet Printers and host malicious files on their hard drive. The famous security researcher Chris Vickery is known for discovering 191 million US voter registration records online. He is the same guy who found 3.3 million hacked Hello Kitty accounts — That’s not all, he also found 13 […]
Short Bytes: Visual Hacking is a security threat that is often overlooked by us. This is the act of stealing information by simple observation and it’s success rates are as high as 90%. Read more to know everything about it. Visual Hacking is a relatively new term that you need to add in your jargon. […]