The focus of the Kaspersky research was the Absolute Computrace agent that resides in the firmware, or PC ROM Basic Input/Output Systems (BIOS), of modern laptops and desktops. It’s a key part of the ...

Following a flood of calls from customers, the company behind the LoJack anti-theft service which researchers from Core Security Technologies recently portrait as a security threat, issued a statement ...

Absolute Software’s anti-theft Computrace software is mysteriously installed on brand new machines, nearly impossible to remove, and exploitable. UPDATE: A previous version of this story incorrectly ...

The developer of the Computrace anti-theft mechanism shipped with millions of PCs which was recently claimed to be vulnerable to remote hijacking has rubbished the report as inaccurate and based on ...