Battery-Virus on Dell notebooks

Computer viruses, which infiltrate from the Internet or from storage media to the hard disk are still from the old school. New viruses are battery-faced now warns an expert. On control chips from batteries to Dell notebooks and destroy viruses, hackers could infiltrate the battery. While the experts not managed to bring the Dell Inspiron 1545 battery to explode. But at least make the energy storage device unusable.

Las Vegas is the end of July a meeting of IT security experts and even now, experts will present a taste of their findings. Particular attention was security researcher Charlie Miller of Accuvant: He brought DELL Studio 1537 battery to destroy itself. The researchers looked in particular for security vulnerabilities in Dell's operating system Mac OS X and found a vulnerability in the control chip of the DELL Latitude D620 battery.

It has enabled the IT security experts to reprogram the software of the control chip of laptop batteries and in turn the energy storage device unusable., Heise.de reported. Also a revival of the DELL XPS M1330 battery is no longer been possible, reports The Register.

The expert warns of a threat, the slumber of the incomplete control chip in Dell Inspiron 6400 battery: A battery-reprogrammable chip could also be played by viruses, other malicious software to play on the computer hard drive. At worst, the anti-virus software being circumvented - even a clean install then bring no relief because the malware from the battery-chip will be played out again and again.

After his presentation at the Black Hat conference announced the expert Remedy: Miller wants to publish a utility. It is intended to change the default password of battery chips and thus make it difficult manipulations.

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