Due to a critical flaw in HP laptops in a certain .dll file, hackers and the like can can compromise a system through taking advantage of ActiveX scripting.  Unfortunately, there is no fix for it yet, but hopefully we will see one by the end of the year.  Just be smart and don’t click on any odd-looking links and you will dramatically reduce your chances of getting your laptop hijacked by this method.

If you use a Hewlett-Packard laptop, chances are a hacker can hijack your machine simply by luring you to a malicious website.

The pwnage comes courtesy of “HP Info Center”, which comes installed on most HP laptops, according to a post made Tuesday to Milw0rm.com. It turns out one of the ActiveX controls uses three insecure methods that leave users open to remote code execution and remote registry manipulation-based attacks.[more]

Tags: Malware, Websites