A security researcher has discovered that hundreds of different HP laptop models ship with software that can record every keystroke a user makes. HP has acknowledged that the issue affects 460 laptop models, and the company has already released a software update for affected models. It’s worth noting that HP hadn’t installed the keylogger to […]
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Some HP computers might be logging your every keystroke… in plain text
Security researchers at Modzero have discovered software that comes pre-loaded on some HP laptops which saves a copy of everything you type in a plain text file. The good news is that the software doesn’t appear to have been designed specifically to spy on you or send your data to anyone. The bad news is that it’s […]