• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Nov-24-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on And then there were two: Another dangerous Dell root certificate discovered

The plot thickens: After Dell confirmed that one of its support tools installed a dangerous self-signed root certificate and private key on computers, users discovered a similar certificate deployed by a different Dell tool.The second certificate is called DSDTestProvider and […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Nov-24-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on And then there were two: Another dangerous Dell root certificate discovered

The plot thickens: After Dell confirmed that one of its support tools installed a dangerous self-signed root certificate and private key on computers, users discovered a similar certificate deployed by a different Dell tool.The second certificate is called DSDTestProvider and […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Nov-24-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Dell’s security-shattering PC root certificate debacle: What you need to know

In an attempt to streamline remote support, Dell installed a self-signed root certificate and corresponding private key on its customers’ computers, apparently without realizing that this exposes users’ encrypted communications to potential spying.Even more surprising is that the company did […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Nov-24-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Dell’s security-shattering PC root certificate debacle: What you need to know

In an attempt to streamline remote support, Dell installed a self-signed root certificate and corresponding private key on its customers’ computers, apparently without realizing that this exposes users’ encrypted communications to potential spying.Even more surprising is that the company did […]