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By Dave Moore | CISSP, For The Transcript May 9, 2021 Dave Moore Don’t you just love it when you discover there’s something wrong with your stuff, and you’d better fix it now, or else? Ain’t nobody got time for that, right? Welcome to the reality of modern day computing. The electronic computing devices we use every day are, in fact, cheap mass-produced highly flawed consumer-grade experiments in functionality, connected to billions of similar devices using anoth...

Dude, Get a Security Update for Your Dell PC Share Filed to:alienware Do you still own tech from 2009 or thereabouts? Maybe an old CPU or motherboard that’s sitting in a box in your closet “just in case” you need a backup? What about a Dell? If you or someone you care about happens to still be using a Dell computer produced any time between when Barack Obama started his first term and now, you should check to make sure you don’t need an important security update that just dropped. The u...

It was originally discovered by researchers from Sentinel Labs who found that attackers could exploit these vulnerabilities to locally escalate to kernel-mode privileges. Since 2009, Dell has released hundreds of millions of Windows devices worldwide which contain the vulnerable driver. The findings, which were proactively reported to Dell on 1 December 2020, essentially found that the vulnerabilities would allow attackers to bypass security products, although the researchers haven’t seen an...

It was revealed this week that Dell is in the process of updating hundreds of PC models to address a security bug affecting machines dating all the way back to 2009. The vulnerability allows an attacker to gain kernel-level permissions in Windows.  The vulnerability was found by security firm Sentinel Labs and while no evidence of this vulnerability being exploited has been found, a fix is still needed. The vulnerability exists in the ‘dbutil_2_3.sys’ driver and would have been installed o...

Newly discovered security vulnerabilities put Dell PCs going back to 2009 at risk, but there are steps you can take to fix them.

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If you own a Dell PC, read this on May 4, 2021, 20:18 23 comments What just happened? If you thought your aging Dell laptop was safe from modern malware or hacking exploits, think again. Dell has just released a retroactive, high-priority software patch for hundreds of its machines, some of which have initial releases dating back to 2009. The patch addresses an "insufficient access control vulnerability" present in the dbutil_2_3.sys driver, which can be fo...

Vulnerabilities in Dell driver affect hundreds of millions of computers SHARE Dell Technologies Inc. today issued an urgent patch to address vulnerabilities found in hundreds of millions of computers sold by the company since 2009. Discovered and publicized today by researchers at SentinelLabs, the five vulnerabilities, tracked collectively as CVE-2021-21551, affect DVUtil 2.3, a Dell BIOS driver that allows the operating system and system apps to interact with the co...

Five vulnerabilities lay undetected for almost a dozen years in Windows driver code Share Copy 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. Were told this amounts of hundreds of millions of machines that can be completely hijacked. This is made possible by five security vulnerabilities in Dells dbutil_2_3.sys driver, which it bundles with its PCs. These are g...

Dell XPS 15 (9500) Review In late September 2020, we packed up my sister’s SUV with my daughter’s belongings and drove it to Charlotte, North Carolina so she could belatedly start her first year of college. The pandemic has changed lots of things, ruined things, but I’m happy she’s been able to have some semblance of a normal college experience. And I know that it will only improve over time. Why mention this in a laptop review? Well, it was my only trip during the pandemic, my only tr...