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Mechanical keyboard maker accused of keylogging as customers examine software
Reports have surfaced that software supplied with MantisTek's GK2 mechanical keyboard is keylogging input and transmitting the data online in plain text. This data is supposedly collected and used by a customer of Alibaba Cloud [China].
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Just saw this and whist it relates to government departments surly the warning ⚠️ should apply to public users of their system The Government has been warned by Britain's main cyber security agency not to use Russian anti-virus software.Bit worrying as well is the fact that our government departments are having to use cyber security from foreign countries surly GCHQ can write a programme
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Barclays Bank now pulled it as a freebie to their customers take heed those that use it
iOS 11.2 Update just released.
Mc Afee is a good alternative to the Russian stuff and its free with most BT broadband packages, also the "built in" one in Windows 10 seems to do the job, although it might not have all the "Bells & Whistles".
Even if you are using Kaspersky and unless you are doing somthing tricky [Sensitive] on your machine you should be ok, I should think their targets would be the big corporates or Government departments, change when your subscriptions runs out.
if you do your banking online I would think that’s good enough reason to change it like every other institution that takes your money they are very reluctant to give it back,if you are a Barclays customer and have been told they are withdrawing it I would have thought that they have send a message to use a different security as well therefore if money is taken guess what they are going to say.But As Lightorder says doubt they would be after small fish like us
If you bank with HSBC McAfee is free for a year but at the end of the year just use a different email address to download it free again
Conservative MP Nadine Dorries is being told to 'get your house in order' after admitting she shares login passwords with staff, including temporary interns.
What hope does joe blogs have this is what people who run the country are doing
Ideal target for 'Harry Hacker'
Dozens of laptop models sold by HP contain built-in "keylogging" technology that stores everything users type, researchers have warned.
The records of what users type on the keyboard were stored in plain text on the computers, meaning anyone with access to them could read messages, passwords, web searches and credit card numbers if they knew where to look.
HP issued a fix for some of the affected models on Thursday night and promised another for the rest of the devices would be released today.