![]() Users can run a variety of specialized tools for determining a possible infection and should install all relevant ASUS security patches immediately. Quieting Scary Web Browser SSL Alerts Linux. ShadowHammer is a backdoor Trojan that its threat actors are distributing in hijacked ASUS software updates, with an emphasis on specific entities using notebook systems.Siemens Now Commands An Army Of Spider Robots Slashdot.Here is some more Tech News from around the web: If you're an IT administrator, find devices making periodic calls to Asus's domains and blackhole them, get the user to come and see you," ![]() "My advice to anyone who purchased an Asus device: remove LiveUpdate. As the pull quote from The Inquirer below states, removing it immediately would be a very good idea. This of course leaves you wide open for man in the middle attacks, where someone posing as those update servers could feed you whatever installation files they desired. In this case it is ASUS Live Update which transmits requests for updates in plain text and does not check any software updates which come back for authenticity. Sadly you would be mistaken as once again software preinstalled on laptops is in the news. After last week when several laptop OEMs, including Lenovo once again, were caught installing highly insecure bloatware on their laptop you might hope that this week would be different.
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