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Dell desktops, laptops, and tablets built since 2009 and running Windows can be exploited to grant rogue users and malware system-administrator-level access to the computers.
We're told this amounts of hundreds of millions of machines that can be completely hijacked.
This is made possible by five security vulnerabilities in Dell's dbutil_2_3.sys driver, which it bundles with its PCs
Full story:
We're told this amounts of hundreds of millions of machines that can be completely hijacked.
This is made possible by five security vulnerabilities in Dell's dbutil_2_3.sys driver, which it bundles with its PCs
Full story:
'Millions' of Dell PCs will grant malware, rogue users admin-level access if asked nicely
Five vulnerabilities lay undetected for almost a dozen years in Windows driver code
www.theregister.com