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The Absolute Home & Office client has trojan and rootkit-like behaviour, but some of its modules have been whitelisted by several antivirus vendors. [6] [8]At the Black Hat Briefings conference in 2009, researchers showed that the implementation of the Computrace/LoJack agent embedded in the BIOS has vulnerabilities and that this "available control of the anti-theft agent allows a highly ...
In 2011 Jonathan Brossard demonstrated a proof-of-concept hardware backdoor called "Rakshasa" which can be installed by anyone with physical access to hardware. It uses coreboot to re-flash the BIOS with a SeaBIOS and iPXE benign bootkit built of legitimate, open-source tools and can fetch malware over the web at boot time. [1]
The Roth 401(k) is a type of retirement savings plan. It was authorized by the United States Congress under the Internal Revenue Code, section 402A, [1] and represents a unique combination of features of the Roth IRA and a traditional 401(k) plan. Since January 1, 2006, U.S. employers have been allowed to amend their 401(k) plan document to ...
A mega backdoor Roth is a strategy that lets investors — who normally couldn’t add to a Roth account due to their high income or contribution limits — move specific 401(k) contributions into ...
The same rules apply to a Roth 401(k), but only if the employer’s plan permits. In certain situations, a traditional IRA offers penalty-free withdrawals even when an employer-sponsored plan does ...
A backdoor is a typically covert method of bypassing normal authentication or encryption in a computer, product, embedded device (e.g. a home router), or its embodiment (e.g. part of a cryptosystem, algorithm, chipset, or even a "homunculus computer"—a tiny computer-within-a-computer such as that found in Intel's AMT technology).
Retirement plans such as a 401(k) or 403(b) may allow you to take hardship withdrawals. The situation is a bit different for IRA accounts, which permit early withdrawals at any time.
Login spoofings are techniques used to steal a user's password. [1] [2] The user is presented with an ordinary looking login prompt for username and password, which is actually a malicious program (usually called a Trojan horse) under the control of the attacker. When the username and password are entered, this information is logged or in some ...