Security News

Dell investigates data breach claims after hacker leaks employee info
2024-09-20 16:30

Dell has confirmed to BleepingComputer that they are investigating recent claims that it suffered a data breach after a threat actor leaked the data for over 10,000 employees. [...]

Dell API abused to steal 49 million customer records in data breach
2024-05-10 19:30

The threat actor behind the recent Dell data breach revealed they scraped information of 49 million customer records using an partner portal API they accessed as a fake company. Yesterday, BleepingComputer reported that Dell had begun to send notifications warning customers that their personal data was stolen in a data breach.

Dell customer order database of '49M records' stolen, now up for sale on dark web
2024-05-09 17:55

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Dell warns of data breach, 49 million customers allegedly affected
2024-05-09 15:21

Dell is warning customers of a data breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen information for approximately 49 million customers.The computer maker began emailing data breach notifications to customers yesterday, stating that a Dell portal containing customer information related to purchases was breached.

Windows Hello auth bypassed on Microsoft, Dell, Lenovo laptops
2023-11-22 19:08

Security researchers bypassed Windows Hello fingerprint authentication on Dell Inspiron, Lenovo ThinkPad, and Microsoft Surface Pro X laptops in attacks exploiting security flaws found in the embedded fingerprint sensors. Blackwing Intelligence security researchers discovered vulnerabilities during research sponsored by Microsoft's Offensive Research and Security Engineering to assess the security of the top three embedded fingerprint sensors used for Windows Hello fingerprint authentication.

Dell Compellent hardcoded key exposes VMware vCenter admin creds
2023-08-10 14:38

An unfixed hardcoded encryption key flaw in Dell's Compellent Integration Tools for VMware (CITV) allows attackers to decrypt stored vCenter admin credentials and retrieve the cleartext password. [...]

Dell Technologies World 2023: Q&A on how Dell sees security at the edge
2023-06-24 00:06

Read our interview from Dell Technologies World 2023 about cloud and edge workloads and Dell's NativeEdge product. To get into the details, I spoke with Aaron Chaisson, Dell Technologies' vice president of telecom and edge solutions marketing, at Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas.

Dell Technologies World 2023: Interview with Rob Emsley on data protection, recovery and more
2023-06-23 18:17

According to the Dell Global Data Protection Index, 67% of 1,000 IT decision-makers globally aren't very confident that their data across all public clouds is protected. At Dell Technologies World 2023, I spoke with Rob Emsley, the director of product marketing for data protection at Dell Technologies, about the changing world of data protection.

Dell called on NVIDIA hardware for Project Helix generative AI
2023-05-26 20:06

Throughout the first day of the conference, CEO Michael Dell and fellow executives drilled down into what AI could do for enterprises beyond ChatGPT. "Enterprises are going to be able to train far simpler AI models on specific, confidential data less expensively and securely, driving breakthroughs in productivity and efficiency," Michael Dell said. Dell's solution, Project Helix, is a full stack, on-premises offering in which companies train and guide their own proprietary AI. For example, a company might deploy a large language model to read all of the knowledge articles on its website and answer a user's questions based on a summary of those articles, said Forrester analyst Rowan Curran.

Severe AMI MegaRAC flaws impact servers from AMD, ARM, HPE, Dell, others
2022-12-05 15:07

Three vulnerabilities in the American Megatrends MegaRAC Baseboard Management Controller software impact server equipment used in many cloud service and data center providers. The flaws were discovered by Eclypsium in August 2022 and could enable attackers, under certain conditions, to execute code, bypass authentication, and perform user enumeration.