On Tuesday Networkworld ran the first part of an article written by Mohamed Hassan claiming that Samsung was shipping a keylogger called StarLogger with its laptops. The software is apparently undetectable and captures all key presses as well as taking screenshots which it can then e-mail to a third party.
We were surprised to hear that Samsung would ever consider doing such a thing, and was even more surprised when the second part of the article appeared stating Samsung confirmed the presence of the keylogger so it could monitor the performance of machines.
But Samsung has now looked into the matter and rubbished the claims made by Mohamed Hassan in an official statement. The files detected by Hassan were not from a keylogger, but instead false positives generated by his security suite VIPRE. The actual folder in question was created by Microsoft’s Live Application for multi-language support.
What we can’t understand is why Mohamed Hassan, who is founder of security company NetSec Consulting, didn’t check to see if the files and folder were false positives before going public. This could have caused Samsung a lot of commercial damage and we wouldn’t be surprised if the company decides to take some action against him.
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