This one isn’t quite as ridiculous as Conexant-it’s deactivated by default and can’t be enabled without administrator access-but it could help attackers evade detection by antimalware tools if they wanted to keylog an HP laptop. The HP Touchpoint Manager controversy wasn’t quite “spyware” like a lot of media outlets claimed, but HP failed in communicating with its customers about the problem, and the Touchpoint Manager software was still a useless, CPU-hogging program that isn’t necessary for home computers.Īnd to top it all off, HP laptops had yet another keylogger installed by default as part of the Synaptics touchpad drivers. There have been other, less serious problems in HP PCs, too. It wasn’t even hidden-it was actively creating a keylogger file! It’s absolutely crazy that HP wouldn’t catch this debug code before it shipped on PCs. Many HP laptops shipped with an audio driver that logged all keypresses to a MicTray.log file on the computer, which anyone could view (or steal).
Their worst problem, which I personally experienced on my laptop, was the Conexant keylogger. RELATED: How to Check if Your HP Laptop Has the Conexant Keylogger HP’s Pre-Installed Software Is an Absolute Mess Security by obscurity isn’t going to fly for Apple anymore, and they need to step it up. For example, Macs still don’t have UEFI Secure Boot to prevent attackers from tampering with the boot process, as Windows PCs have had since Windows 8. If Microsoft had such a problem in Windows, Apple executives would be taking pot shots at Windows in presentations for years to come.Īpple has been coasting on the Mac’s security reputation for far too long, even though Macs are still less secure than Windows PCs in some fundamental ways. This is an unbelievably bad mistake from Apple. So not only was it a bad mistake in High Sierra in the first place, but Apple’s response-while fairly quick-was a mess. If you installed another update afterwards (from before the security hole was found), it would re-open the hole-Apple’s patch didn’t get included in any other OS updates. Worse yet, the patches Apple rushed out to fix this didn’t necessarily fix the problem. This could happen remotely via Screen Sharing, and it could even bypass the FileVault encryption used to secure your files. Here's the FixĪpple’s latest version of macOS, known as “High Sierra”, had a gaping security hole that allowed attackers to quickly sign in as root and get full access to your PC-just by trying to sign in a few times without a password.
RELATED: Huge macOS Bug Allows Root Login Without a Password. But this is 2017, and Apple has had the most amateurish, sloppy mistake of all-so let’s start there. If this were any other year, people would be holding Apple’s Macs up as an alternative to the PC chaos. Apple Left a Gaping Hole in macOS, and Did a Bad Job Patching It
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