Intel confirmed the Centrino Wi-Fi vulnerability

The world's leading chip maker has just suggested that some bugs in Centrino's wireless connectivity technology risk remote exploits by hackers and disseminating malicious code between laptops in the same access point.

Source: wroc These vulnerabilities appear in the driver of Microsoft Windows operating system. The driver was designed for some hardware versions of Intel's Wireless Network Connection. "Error affects Intel 2200BG and 2915ABG PRO / Wireless Network Connection Hardware when drivers operate certain frames. Attackers can exploit that weakness to handle code and control the system," Intel warned. .

The company also added that problems "could provide an opportunity for hackers to install fake code on the target system with a kernel-level".

Although Intel posted an update to the software on the website, they still recommend laptop users to contact the manufacturer to fix the problem.

Advisor Graham Cluley of British security firm Sophos also said hackers can control the user's entire system and spread the virus wirelessly to other laptops in the same access point (hotspot). .