Category Archives: Hardware

Hardware, sysadmin

How To Reset an APC AP9630 / AP9631 to DHCP Mode | Chris Parker

Several years ago I purchased an APC AP9630 Network Management Card 2 (AP9630 NMC) for a Smart-UPS of mine.  The manual was not clear how to change the mode of the card to enable DHCP without using a serial cable. (Who even has a laptop with an old serial port?!)

It turns out there are two reset modes for the card:

  1. Pressing the reset button for 5-7 seconds resets only the password.
  2. Pressing the reset button for 20 seconds will restore the card to factory default settings and switch it to DHCP mode.

This should also work on the AP9631.

Hopefully, this will get indexed and save some people some time in figuring it out…

Source: How To Reset an APC AP9630 / AP9631 to DHCP Mode | Chris Parker

Computer, exploits, fraud, Gear & Gadgets, Hardware, malware, Security, surveillance, vulnerabilities

More than 450 HP laptop models contain hidden keyloggers capable of tracking everything you type | Alphr

More than 450 HP laptop models have a keylogger hidden away in a driver, forcing HP to issue patches for the affected devices.The keylogger, found in Synaptics’ touchpad software, is disabled by default, but hackers could potentially enable it if they had access to a computer by elevating user privileges, said Michael Myng, the researcher who discovered the flaw.

Source: More than 450 HP laptop models contain hidden keyloggers capable of tracking everything you type | Alphr