{"id":166946,"date":"2016-06-01T10:33:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T08:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=166946"},"modified":"2016-06-01T10:35:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T08:35:36","slug":"your-laptops-update-software-most-likely-has-a-security-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/166946-your-laptops-update-software-most-likely-has-a-security-flaw.html","title":{"rendered":"Your laptop&#8217;s update software most likely has a security flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/duo.com\/blog\/out-of-box-exploitation-a-security-analysis-of-oem-updaters\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Duo Security<\/strong><\/a> said it has found security vulnerabilities in the update software of Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo PCs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShovelware, crapware, bloatware, value-added &#8211; it goes by a lot of names &#8211; whatever you call it, it is making us vulnerable and invading our privacy,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Duo Security said every vendor had at least one vulnerability that could allow for a man-in-the-middle attacker to execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome vendors made no attempts to harden their updaters, while others tried to, but were tripped up by a variety of implementation flaws and configuration issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company provided a\u00a0breakdown of basic features from some of the updaters it looked at, posted below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Security-issues.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-166952\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Security-issues.jpg\" alt=\"Security issues\" width=\"640\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Security-issues.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Security-issues-504x430.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on security<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/166608-gupta-owned-ann7-to-buy-mybroadband-hacker-spoof.html\"><strong>Gupta-owned ANN7 to buy MyBroadband \u2013 hacker spoof<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/134248-watch-how-you-can-be-hacked-on-wi-fi-networks.html\"><strong>Watch: How you can be hacked on Wi-Fi networks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/127776-how-hackers-steal-your-private-information-on-wi-fi.html\"><strong>How hackers steal your private information on Wi-Fi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duo Security has unveiled security problems with the update software of Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo PCs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":155408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16],"tags":[2006,36,947,225,2012,1525],"class_list":["post-166946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-software","tag-acer","tag-active","tag-asus","tag-dell","tag-hp","tag-lenovo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166980,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166946\/revisions\/166980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}