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

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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 [...]

Spammers go multilingual, use automatic translation services

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For years spammers relied on basic mass marketing concepts in an attempt to target everyone, everywhere, thereby sacrificing quality for quantity.Things changed, at least for some of them. Realizing the advantages of market segmentation, certain spammers started segmenting the databases of harvested or emails based on their country of origin, followed by an attempt to [...]

China's Green Dam and the cyberwar implications

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Guest editorial by Oliver DayChinese military leaders have always been aware of the military advantage the US has over the People’s Liberation Army.  Reading through their published assessments of Sino-US war possibilities confirm our belief that we would dominate them in the air, land and sea.  However the PLA was born of asymmetric warfare and [...]

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