Computer maker Hewlett Packard has fessed up to a gaping safety measure gap on more than 80 laptop models, warning that the backdoor could users at risk of drive-by cipher execution attacks. An advisory from HP lists 82 laptop models as vulnerable to the ActiveX vulnerability found on the HP Info Center software.   The issue is rated “critical” and HP laptop owners should be aware

that public exploit cipher that provides a roadmap for exploiting the gap is circulating around the World Wide Web. A successful exploit simply requires that the laptop owner is lured to a malicious Web site while using Microsoft’s Net Explorer.  The risks include remote cipher execution, remote system registry read/write access and remote shell command execution. It…

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