Without any other corroboration or verification from other sources NetworkWorld ran with Hassan's story which was picked up by several other major news outlets creating a major stir. Upon returning the laptop for another again ran similar scans detecting the same keylogger. wrote in Mich Kabay’s Security Strategies newsletter that as soon as he received his Samsung R525 laptop, he ran a full system scan and found a commercial keylogger called StarLogger. Mohamed Hassan the founder of NetSec Consulting Corp, a firm that specializes in information security consulting services. ![]() ![]() Reports published on several major sites yesterday about a potentially damaging keylogger being pre-installed on brand-new Samsung laptops have now been refuted as being nothing more than a false positive, some overzealous, perhaps even poor reporting and apologies have now been issued.
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