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Lenovo Caught Installing Backdoor – Even If You Wipe The Disk

Lenovo has stopped installing software which allows them to overwrite system files with their version of those files, even if you wipe the disk.  They have released a patch for it and recommend that users install the fixes, especially on laptops, quickly.  How they do it is quite amazing. Lenovo has built, into the firmware […]

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Microsoft Uses Customer Bandwidth To Deliver Windows 10 Updates

For those of you who use Bit Torrent to download pirated movies, this post is for you.  Microsoft has turned every Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro user into a Bit Torrent node of sorts, delivering Microsoft updates to their millions of customers. Like other Windows 10 features (WiFi Sense, for example), I am […]

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Jeep Hacked By Remote Control

The media has been reporting the demonstration done by two security researchers  and a Wired magazine reporter where they completely controlled a Jeep, including the brakes and accelerator.  To quote Wired: I WAS DRIVING 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold. Though I hadn’t touched the dashboard, […]

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Why Knowledge Based Authentication Is Useless

Knowledge Based Authentication – using information that only you know – used to be a very popular method for validating that you are you.  Examples of this are when a customer service agent asks you for your birth date, last four of your social or where you were born.  The credit bureaus even sell that […]

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