The Security Mentor

Have you ever wondered why security people start making pained faces whenever they hear about some cool-sounding useful feature?

It's because they've seen too many things that looked good go horribly wrong.

via The Register, there's a report that the "HP Info Center" on HP laptops, which does several useful and powerful things, can be triggered to do them by a web page, and can do some powerful things that are useful to an attacker.

Technical details of the HP laptop vulnerability for your technical friends.

Pending a fix from HP, the best way to avoid this is not to use Internet Explorer.