Security News

Israeli Intelligence Discovered IS Plans for Laptop Ban: Report (Security Week)
2017-06-12 17:57

Israeli government spies hacked into the operations of Islamic State bombmakers to discover they were developing a laptop computer bomb to blow up a commercial aircraft, the New York Times...

US Says No Laptop Ban on Board Flights From Europe for Now (Security Week)
2017-05-31 16:06

US aviation security officials stepped back Tuesday from imposing a ban on carry-on computers on flights coming from Europe, which had been proposed to guard against possible bomb-laden...

Extending the Airplane Laptop Ban (Schneier on Security)
2017-05-22 11:06

The Department of Homeland Security is rumored to be considering extending the current travel ban on large electronics for Middle Eastern flights to European ones as well. The likely reaction of...

Keylogger Found in HP Laptop Audio Drivers (Schneier on Security)
2017-05-17 11:32

This is a weird story: researchers have discovered that an audio driver installed in some HP laptops includes a keylogger, which records all keystrokes to a local file. There seems to be nothing...

HP pushes out fix for keylogging audio driver in its laptops (Help Net Security)
2017-05-12 15:12

Swiss security consultancy Modzero revealed on Thursday that a number of HP laptops contain an audio driver that logs users’ keystrokes and stores them in an unencrypted file on the local system....