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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 found on Windows-equipped Dell systems with user-installed firmware update packages. Not all Dell mach...

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 computer’s BIOS, which is firmware used in booting up a computer, as well as hardware. Rated with a ...

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. 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. These are grouped under the label CVE 2021-21551, and they can be abused to crash systems, steal information,...

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 trip of the past 12 months, and it was thus my only chance all year to get some semi-normal experience...