It's Monday, December 11th, and we've got a couple digital security stories for you today. Let's get started with the news that a researcher looking to control the keyboard backlight on his HP laptop found some interesting bits of code in the machine's Digital attic, including a key logger program that could be utilized by hackers to sponge up information like passwords, login data, and wealth anything you type on the keyboard since it's a key logger program.

TechCrunch says the key logging code was inactive when it was found by the researcher and that after he contacted HP about it, the company quickly responded with an update to wipe it from the PC. We've got links to the list of laptops affected, and that list includes the software update from HP. You should run right away so check the list to see if your computer is affected maybe run the update anyway just to be sure. If you haven't heard Bitcoin is going great guns these days with the price for a single Bitcoin topping $17,000 but a popular crypto currency management website called my ether wallet is fighting against an identically named app on Apple's App Store even though the app has nothing to do with the website and has the exact same name as the website it's still available for five bucks because so far it hasn't been proven to be malicious in any way.

The folks who run the my ether wallet website tweeted that they did not create the app or have anything to do with it at all, calling those that did quote scam tarts. The app creator does not link out to the website and in the past has only created a couple of fighting games that involve pandas. So kind of weird for now we devised Bitcoin owners to be extremely careful about how they manage their newfound wealth get more details at the link.

Okay, so this has to be both the scariest and also sort of fun job in the world professional drone crash tester. It's not really a job as much as some tests being done but I team at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University still purposefully crashing drones into stuff including the heads of crash-test dummies sounds like a bit of somewhat dark fun to us but that's what they're doing and it's all in the name of safety. The team has been dropping drones flying drones and otherwise doing all the things you shouldn't do with drones to see how our delicate melons would fare if they you know got smacked by a medium-sized flying buzzsaw ouch that is gonna leave a mark.

After seeing crazy drone incidents like this famous ski race near-miss and other not so famous crashes we think this is worthy research. We volunteer to be pilots not targets all right, we've got more fun tech news and videos over at Digital Trends com including this interesting look from McLaren at the tech inside they're insanely fast supercars more on the new snapdragon 845 chip and our fun gift guide for the tech lovers in your life clocks tickin thanks for watching and we'll see you tomorrow.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enit's Monday December 11th and we've got a couple digital security stories for you today let's get started with the news that a researcher looking to control the keyboard backlight on his HP laptop found some interesting bits of code in the machines Digital attic including a key logger program that could be utilized by hackers to sponge up information like passwords login data and wealth anything you type on the keyboard since it's a key logger program TechCrunch says the key logging code was inactive when it was found by the researcher and that after he contacted HP about it the company quickly responded with an update to wipe it from the PC we've got links to the list of laptops affected and that list includes the software update from HP you should run right away so check the list to see if your computer is affected maybe run the update anyway just to be sure if you haven't heard Bitcoin is going great guns these days with the price for a single Bitcoin topping $17,000 but a popular crypto currency management website called my ether wallet is fighting against an identically named app on Apple's App Store even though the app has nothing to do with the website and has the exact same name as the website it's still available for five bucks because so far it hasn't been proven to be malicious in any way the folks who run the my ether wallet website tweeted that they did not create the app or have anything to do with it at all calling those that did quote scam tarts the app creator does not link out to the website and in the past has only created a couple of fighting games that involve pandas so kind of weird for now we devised Bitcoin owners to be extremely careful about how they manage their newfound wealth get more details at the link okay so this has to be both the scariest and also sort of fun job in the world professional drone crash tester okay it's not really a job as much as some tests being done but I team at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University but still purposefully crashing drones into stuff including the heads of crash-test dummies sounds like a bit of somewhat dark fun to us but that's what they're doing and it's all in the name of safety of course the team has been dropping drones flying drones and otherwise doing all the things you shouldn't do with drones to see how our delicate melons would fare if they you know got smacked by a medium-sized flying buzzsaw ouch that is gonna leave a mark after seeing crazy drone incidents like this famous ski race near-miss and other not so famous crashes we think this is worthy research we volunteer to be pilots not targets all right we've got more fun tech news and videos over at Digital Trends com including this interesting look from McLaren at the tech inside they're insanely fast supercars more on the new snapdragon 845 chip and our fun gift guide for the tech lovers in your life clocks tickin thanks for watching and we'll see you tomorrowit's Monday December 11th and we've got a couple digital security stories for you today let's get started with the news that a researcher looking to control the keyboard backlight on his HP laptop found some interesting bits of code in the machines Digital attic including a key logger program that could be utilized by hackers to sponge up information like passwords login data and wealth anything you type on the keyboard since it's a key logger program TechCrunch says the key logging code was inactive when it was found by the researcher and that after he contacted HP about it the company quickly responded with an update to wipe it from the PC we've got links to the list of laptops affected and that list includes the software update from HP you should run right away so check the list to see if your computer is affected maybe run the update anyway just to be sure if you haven't heard Bitcoin is going great guns these days with the price for a single Bitcoin topping $17,000 but a popular crypto currency management website called my ether wallet is fighting against an identically named app on Apple's App Store even though the app has nothing to do with the website and has the exact same name as the website it's still available for five bucks because so far it hasn't been proven to be malicious in any way the folks who run the my ether wallet website tweeted that they did not create the app or have anything to do with it at all calling those that did quote scam tarts the app creator does not link out to the website and in the past has only created a couple of fighting games that involve pandas so kind of weird for now we devised Bitcoin owners to be extremely careful about how they manage their newfound wealth get more details at the link okay so this has to be both the scariest and also sort of fun job in the world professional drone crash tester okay it's not really a job as much as some tests being done but I team at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University but still purposefully crashing drones into stuff including the heads of crash-test dummies sounds like a bit of somewhat dark fun to us but that's what they're doing and it's all in the name of safety of course the team has been dropping drones flying drones and otherwise doing all the things you shouldn't do with drones to see how our delicate melons would fare if they you know got smacked by a medium-sized flying buzzsaw ouch that is gonna leave a mark after seeing crazy drone incidents like this famous ski race near-miss and other not so famous crashes we think this is worthy research we volunteer to be pilots not targets all right we've got more fun tech news and videos over at Digital Trends com including this interesting look from McLaren at the tech inside they're insanely fast supercars more on the new snapdragon 845 chip and our fun gift guide for the tech lovers in your life clocks tickin thanks for watching and we'll see you tomorrow\n"