Security News

Windows machines stop trusting Dell's two unconstrained root CA certs (Help Net Security)
2015-12-01 13:31

Microsoft has updated the Certificate Trust list for all supported releases of Microsoft Windows so that the two digital certificates (complete with inadvertently disclosed private keys) used by Dell ...

Week in review: Dell computers shipped with root CA cert and private key, analytics services tracking users via Chrome extensions (Help Net Security)
2015-11-30 06:57

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Four ways an attacker can infiltrate an organization by diverting security solutions Even if we theoretically had th...

Another root CA cert with key found on Dell's machines (Help Net Security)
2015-11-25 13:10

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...