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Brand-new hardware — now with malware pre-installed! – InfoWorld (blog)


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Brand-new hardware — now with malware pre-installed!
InfoWorld (blog)
I'm talking about hardware infected before it ships to users or PC sellers. In recent court filings and a white paper (PDF), Microsoft revealed that four of 20 brand-new computers bought in China contained malware out of the box. Each of the four
Beware of pre-installed malware on your new PCCBS News
Microsoft discovers Chinese malware pre-installed on new PCsComputerworld New Zealand
Microsoft disrupts botnet spread through preinstalled malwareFierceCIO
Gizmodo Australia –Newstrack India –ABC Action News
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Perfect, persistent, undetectable hardware backdoor

We’ve heard a lot about nation states attacking us for intellectual property, such as secretly walking away with millions of dollars in American research and development, but a proof-of-concept presentation from Def Con touched on poten Read more

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30 Years: The Top Five Milestones of The IBM PC – Toms Hardware

If we were to look at pure computer, the IBM PC was hardly the first … The first virus in the wild was Elk Cloner and was written in 1981 to attack Apple’s DOS 3.3 OS. The term virus was coined in 1984 by Fred Cohen. However, the first PC virus did …
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