Exploit Found to Brick Most HP and Compaq Laptops

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 20, @08:01PM
from the cool-looking-paperweight dept.

Ian Lamont writes "A security researcher calling himself porkythepig has published attack code that can supposedly brick most HP and Compaq laptops. The exploit uses an ActiveX control in HP's Software Update. It would 'let an attacker corrupt Windows' kernel files, making the laptop unbootable, or with a little more effort, allow hacks that would result in a PC hijack or malware infection.' The same researcher last week outlined a batch of additional vulnerabilities in HP and Compaq laptops, for which HP later issued patches."

[+] !bricked, security, activex, thatsallfolks, windowsbugfix (tagging beta)