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HP Ships Switches With Malware Infected Flash Cards
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoIn other news, Dell Ships Every Computer with Tons of Crapware
- sdfjkl 15y agoA virus that the hardware it's shipped with cannot execute. You have to take the CF card out of it, stick it into your Windows machine, then run the virus manually (assuming that anyone who's administering modular switches of this price class knows not to have autorun enabled, if it even uses that). This isn't very newsworthy I'm afraid.
- jemka 15y ago>A virus that the hardware it's shipped with cannot execute. You have to take the CF card out of it, stick it into your Windows machine...This isn't very newsworthy I'm afraid. The fact that any potentially malicious software shipped on hardware (whether or not it directly affects the hardware it was shipped on) is indeed newsworthy and should be a red flag for HP's current and potential customers. This was obviously a breach in security somewhere along the line and hopefully it will soon be fixed and steps are taken to prevent future issues.
- sargun 15y agoThere are going to be a lot of admins, which the first thing they do is take out that CF card, plug it into their computer, and flash it with their company's standard software / configuration image. A lot of these are enterprise-administered laptops without proper hardening (other than throwing TrendMicro Anti-Virus, and getting definitions once a week). Additionally, the kinds of data that these people have access to can usually make or break critical infrastructure security. So, yeah, it's kind of a concern..