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PhantomNVD

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#201341 14-Aug-2016 21:17

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Just been emailed for a bios update requirement for HP machines:

Products: HP ProBook Notebook PCs, HP Pavilion Notebook PCs, HP x2 PCs, HP EliteBook Notebook PCs, HP Mobile Thin Clients

Description: A security vulnerability identified with UEFI firmware, dubbed ThinkPwn, has been found in certain HP notebook PCs. This document describes how to fix this issue.

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#1611602 14-Aug-2016 21:50

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All my HP laptops at home are updated and none are in the list... Thanks for linking.

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#1611665 15-Aug-2016 04:20

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UEFI security vulns is certainly going to be an interesting attack vector for the next few years

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#1611709 15-Aug-2016 09:42

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Looks like it is just affecting the AMD units

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#1611724 15-Aug-2016 09:50

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These sort of things make you wonder. Alarm bells went off in my head when I found that the HP machines at work can have BIOS settings changed from in Windows via VBScript. Meanwhile my Asus home machine doesn't like my Apple keyboard; it'll work for a couple of weeks then will suddenly decide that there is no keyboard present until you reset the CMOS. A keyboard shouldn't be able to do that!

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