crp Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 After Lenova I would hope that this story is overblown. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 All my Dell laptops are way too old to be worrying about this. Besides, the original OS has long ago been wiped from all of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Another good reason to format and install Linux on them.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 And now this: Dell apologizes for HTTPS certificate fiasco, provides removal tool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Someone dug deeper and there is more than 1 problem. Today's story about Dell and poor security certificates http://www.computerworld.com/article/3008077/security/dell-security-error-widens-as-researchers-dig-deeper.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Poor Dell... struggling to survive in this new era of cheap computing and making all sorts of mistakes in the process. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrke Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 (edited) And the Dell models listed in the articles are the high-end ones that Dell pushes to businesses (or used to, I'm not up on Dell's current market configurations). Not good. EDIT: Yet more bad news for Dell: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/pcs-running-dell-support-app-can-be-uniquely-idd-by-snoops-and-scammers/ Edited November 25, 2015 by ebrke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Speaking of....I just got my website's SSL cert from Let's Encrypt which is backed by the Linux Foundation and is signed by the CA. It's completely free, automated and an open certificate authority(CA). This is the first free trusted certificate available as most cost hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. Right now the cert is in a closed beta stage and is not offered to everyone yet. I signed up a couple of months ago and I just got mine two days ago. Granted my site has just a place card right now until I decide what to do with it. I used to have a blog on it but I wasn't making any entries so I dunno what it will become. https://letsencrypt.org/about/ Right now, it has to be resigned every 90 days which is a good thing, security wise. See how easy that was Dell..... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 I vote for porn. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Always something isn't it LOL Glad they took care of it, but it's sad that they didn't realize this would be the case and remove it before they went out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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