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Black Hat Briefings 2009 - researchers show that the implementation of the Computrace/LoJack agent embedded in the BIOS has vulnerabilities and that this "available control of the anti-theft agent allows a highly dangerous form of BIOS-enhanced rootkit that can bypass all chipset or installation restrictions and reutilize many existing features offered in this kind of software."

Black Hat 2014 - Kaspersky demonstrates local and remote exploitation of first-stage CompuTrace agent (small agent, it is used only to install full version of rootkit after activation of LoJack or after reinstallation of Windows)

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-14/materials/us-14-Kamlyuk-...

Holy hell.




Ah, the laptop anti-theft arms race.




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