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Embedded devices of some 50 manufacturers has been found sharing the same hard-coded X.509 certificates (for HTTPS) and SSH host keys, a fact that can be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacke...

The main piece of news on Monday was that Dell's desktop PCs and laptops shipped since August 2015 contain a root CA certificate (eDellRoot) complete with the private cryptographic key for it. Attacke...


Two more self-signed root certificates and corresponding private keys were found on Dell computers.

All desktop and laptops shipped by Dell since August 2015 contain a root CA certificate (eDellRoot) complete with the private cryptographic key for it, opening users to the danger of Man-in-the-Middle...

Different models of Dell computers have shipped with a preinstalled root certificate and private key, opening the machines up to man-in-the-middle attacks.


In the underground cybercrime economy, many players have specialized in one or two skills and services. It should come as no surprise, then, that some have become experts at getting digital certif...

